The Strategy of Occupational Choice: Recruitment to Dentistry*
作者:
Basil Sherlock,
Alan Cohen,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1966)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 3
页码: 303-313
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1966
DOI:10.1093/sf/44.3.303
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
Self-recruitment to dentistry provides an excellent case of the purposive or negotiated nature of occupational choice, especially of the skilled and professional occupations. Choices were made as compromises between reward preferences and expectancies of access to specific occupations; both of these career perspectives were developed with reference to familial occupational history, especially the occupational status of the father. Evidence is presented which indicates that dentistry was chosen because it combined high rewards with a reasonable degree of access; i.e., a minimax strategy was employed. Medicine, although possessing greater rewards, was rejected because of difficult access; while law, university teaching and accountancy, etc., were rejected because of perceived lower rewards.
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