Sociology Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Using data from 1994-95 third-wave interviews, this study tests whether Kohn and Schooler's findings ( based on 1964 and 1974 interviews) that self-directed occupational conditions increase intellectual functioning and self-directed orientations hold when the respondents are 20 years older. Results confirm that even late in life self-directedness of work continues to affect intellectual functioning and self-directedness of orientation. These psychological characteristics, in turn, affect social-structural position in ways that increase disparities between the advantaged and disadvantaged. From a historical and societal perspective, the findings suggest that the occupational self-directedness of a society's workers may affect its social norms, values, and modes of production.
Repository Citation
Oates, Gary; Schooler, Carmi; and Mulatu, Mesfin Samuel, "Occupational Self-Direction, Intellectual Functioning, and Self-Directed Orientation in Older Workers: Findings and Implications for Individuals and Societies" (2004). Sociology Faculty Publications. 10.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/soc_pub/10
Publication Date
7-2004
Publication Title
American Journal of Sociology
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/385430
Start Page No.
161
End Page No.
197