School-Leavers' Career Choices

An Investigation of the Relationship between Action and Structure

Bibliographic Data

ID20386352
AuthorsAngela Canny (Economic and Social Research Institute, corresponding author)
Year1995
Volume5
Issue1
Pages164-191
Publication date1995-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0791-6035 • E-ISSN: 2050-5280
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/079160359500500108
OpenAlexW2577111402
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

School-leavers' career choices are discussed from the perspective of both structure and action. Very little research has attempted to reconcile the structural conditioning of students' choices with students' own worldview orientations. To help bridge this gap this paper presents a broader analysis of school-leavers' choices, by investigating the combined effects of gender, social class, geographical locality together with students' own worldview orientations and expectations. An attempt will be made to operationalise the link between opportunity structure and worldview by examining the students' educational and occupational aspirations, their migration intentions and their perceptions of the labour market. Using discriminant analysis, the final section seeks to explicate the main factors predicting higher education intentions

Apprenticeship · Epistemology · Geography · Locality · Perception · Political science · Social class · Sociology · Higher Education Research Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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