Symbolic Interactionism on the Economy: Career Inheritance
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Career inheritance is the interactionist finding that children tend to enter occupations like their parents', learned through exposure to career norms.
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A child of a police officer absorbs law enforcement's norms before choosing a career, making that path feel familiar rather than foreign.
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Career inheritance describes a correlational pattern in socialization, not a claim a child's occupation is fixed by parentage.