SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS & CAREER CHOICE

Socioeconomic Status & Career Choice

Socioeconomic Status & Career Choice

Career choice and socioeconomic status have been long associated and often considered a topic of debate for all researchers and sociologists to discuss at length. Thus, in order for greater understanding, we shall be discussing primarily as per what is society and how do individuals make way to earn a living while residing in the society. A society (human) implies a group of people related to each through habitual relations. Another definition of society is defined as a large social grouping that shares the same geographical or virtual territory, subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations (Albrinck, 2008).

Importance of Society

Like other humane groups, a society also permits the residents and members to achieve needs or wishes they could not fulfill alone. This means that individuals are then obliged to make way for highlighting different areas of their lives and trying out several avenues of economic background and nature, which can help individuals make way for exploring their defined set of capabilities and traits. In this way, individuals and members of society can make way for progress and contribute to the overall economic and social development. Individuals are one of the key driving factors behind economic and social development of societies. However, this is applicable to societies where gender inequality does not exist. One leg of development is missing in societies where gender equality has not been achieved. The gender role imposed on “females” by the society and expectations of the society from females result in the deprivation of some of their human rights. Although we are in the 21st century, such equality, unfortunately, has not yet been achieved in developing countries. This is one of the primary reasons why such countries lag behind in socioeconomic and sociocultural fields and fail to achieve development. In order for countries to develop, male-female equality must be achieved (Albrinck, 2008).

Effect of Education on Individuals by Development-Level of Countries

Considering equality between men and women, it is obvious that underdeveloped and developing countries have not achieved such equality yet, while developed countries have earlier solved this problem. Women, who are one of the basic constituents of society, should be given the same status accorded to men in education, business, home life, production and consumption; gender equality should be achieved. Achieving all these in favor of women will lead to an effective means of bringing up future generations and use of the sources in the national economy, and thus have direct and indirect effects which will lead to increase in productivity, more fair distribution of income in the medium and long run, achievement of regional development and finding permanent solutions, increase in employment, and development of agriculture, industry and services sectors.

Developing countries, which have more controlled sources and lag one or more steps behind in economic development race, should give more importance and priority to the achievement of gender equality for women, particularly in the education of women, in order to ...