SOCB54H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Mortimer Reading: Human Capital, Cultural Capital, Onet.Pl
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Change in the experience of work in youth and young adulthood is inextricably tied to broad historical shifts in the transition to adulthood, the occupational structure, and the economy. Process of becoming adult has become more prolonged, due to the extension of higher education. No longer can it be said that there is a single, well-recognized and institutionalized pathway to adulthood. Comparison to proper generation of young people, today"s youth acquire ental home, obtaining a full-time job, marrying in a more variable and individualized sequence. High paying jobs necessitate education beyond high school, and most adolescents aspire to obtain four year degrees. 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. Trends in the experience of employment through the school-to work transition.
