As You Come into the Campus Cafeteria, You Join Your

question 59

Essay

As you come into the campus cafeteria, you join your friends who are discussing how people make occupational choices. One friend believes that we choose our careers based on the importance we place on various work rewards, a second says we are pushed into our jobs through the social influence of parents and peers, and a third says there are much more potent forces in the broader social environment that affect where we end up occupationally. They ask you what you think. How do you respond?

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Definitions:

Milgram Experiment

A psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960s to study obedience to authority, where participants were instructed to administer electric shocks to another person.

Stanford University Prison Experiment

A psychological study conducted by Philip Zimbardo in 1971 at Stanford University, where students were assigned roles of prisoners and guards to explore the effects of perceived power.

Generalization

Drawing a conclusion about a certain characteristic of a population based on a sample from it.

Logical Support

The provision of reasons or evidence to justify a claim or argument.