A Sociological Approach to the Analysis of Preparation for Work Life

Abstract

Preparation for work life is interpreted as involving 4 main kinds of preparation: (a) preparation for life in an organization, involving authority, security quests, impersonality, routine, conflict, mobility, and demotion, (b) preparation for a set of role relationships, (c) preparation for a level of consumption, involving a certain style of life, and (d) preparation for an occupational career, involving changes in the nature of jobs, and different types of jobs depending on the position in the life cycle. Conclusions suggest a broadening of the concept of “vocation,” and a change in approach to the analysis of the decision‐making process from traditional stochastic analysis to “disjointed incrementalism,” that is, making decisions for short time‐periods only, and with strict limitation on available data and resources.

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