SOCB54H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Mortimer: Heavy Competition, Job Satisfaction, Welfare Dependency
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Changing experience of work- jeylan t mortimer. Change in the experience of work in youth and young adulthood is tied to broad historical shifts in the transition to adulthood, the occupational structure, and the economy. During the past several decades the process of becoming an adult has become more prolonged largely due to higher education. No longer can it be said that there is a single well-recognized and instuitionliized. Todays youth and their parents understand that good high paying jobs necessitate education beyond high school, and moat adolescents aspire to obtain four-year college degrees. A long standing tradition of research in the united states, the status attainment school, documents that educational attainment is the primary mediator of the link between socioeconomic origins and occupational destinations. Youth whose parents have higher occupational prestige, education and income encourage their children to obtain more education; their children in turn have higher educational aspirations, which promote higher educational and occupational attainments.
