Fortunate Lives: Professional Careers, Social Position and Life Choices

Tanya Castleman and Rosslyn Reed

Chapter 5 in Ways of Living, 2010, pp 99-119 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract A professional career and its associated social position is well recognized as a key element of an individual’s life chances. Being a professional confers privileges including income, status and esteem. Professional occupations are an important path to social mobility, rewarding a strategy of hard work rather than good luck or unique talent. Qualified professionals might be described as having made a choice and achieved success, as enjoying working lives free of the boredom, toil and occupational danger that characterise less exalted occupations and having skills that protect them in the labour market.

Keywords: Professional Identity; Professional Status; Career Progression; Professional Occupation; Late Modernity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-27399-3_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.palgrave.com/9780230273993

DOI: 10.1057/9780230273993_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().