SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Demography Of The United States, Status Attainment, Cultural Capital
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Ex: youth whose parents have higher occupational prestige education, and income encourage their children to obtain more education; their children in turn have higher educatuinal aspirations, which promote higher educational and occupational attainments. American youth have to rely on their own social contacts and experiences to help them to orient themselves to labor marker. The steady, high duration- low intensity (less than. Ex: floundering-can be measured by how ong it takes, after finishing school, for young ppl to locate stable, full time employment. Objective features are interest to government agencies concerned with matching workers and jobs and tracking the quality of employment thru time: subjective features of work experience, in contrast, refer to the workers multifaceted reactions to their jobs. Subgroup variation the changing experience of work during the transition to adulthood present a broad pic that varies across subgroups in the us.
