SOCB54H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Choosing to Labour: Grounded Theory, Focus Group, Social Inequality
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Choosing to labour: structure and agency in school-work transitions. Know relatively little about how young people rationalize their educational and occupational plans and what this might tell us about the relationship between structure and agency in school-work transitions. Based on multi-method comparison of youth apprentices in canadan and germany the range of school-work transition alternative realistically under consideration was circumscribed by soci-economic status, habitus, cultural capital and insituional factors. Explaning shool-work transitions processed researchers concerned with issues of structureal reproduction have emphasized the capacity of institutional structures to reinforce social inequality. Little about how young people rationalize their educational and occupational plans and what their rationalization strategies might tell us about the relationship between structure and agency in school work transitions. Semi-structured interviews and focus groups the aim is to provide insights into such rationalization strategies by focusing on group of canadian students who participate in a high school based apparenticeship program.
