| Abstrakt: |
In advanced industrial societies, young people spend between ten and fifteen years in educational organisations, isolated from the world of work. With reference to the transition from school to work, this experiential perspective can be very useful. It can help us to understand how, through their interaction with others, certain types of youth who enter middle class occupations come to perceive work as a means of 'self-improvement' and 'self -advancement'. At present this problem is usually resolved by stressing the importance of structural factors or attributes, such as social class, type of school or type of occupation. The frame of reference characteristic of many young people who enter careerless occupations is distinguished by its perceptual immediacy, a central concern with the concrete, the here and now, and the absence of any short or long term planning. For these young people then, their experience of work reinforces the image of themselves transmitted at school: that of young people of limited ability destined for semi-skilled and unskilled jobs. |
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