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- Title
Career Choices of Scholars.
- Authors
Strauss, Samuel
- Abstract
96 professors at the University of Wisconsin and 66 professors at 9 European universities were asked when and why they had selected the general and specialized fields of their work. The replies by all the groups of subjects were quite similar. Careers had been chosen largely during the university years and later. Although changes in career interests bad been common, the humanists and social scientists had settled on their general and specialized fields later than had the natural scientists. The major factor in career choice, especially among the physical scientists, had been a self-generated and absorbing interest. The persons who had exerted the greatest influence were university teachers, while relatives, friends, and secondary school teachers bad played smaller roles. Job experiences, chance, available fellowships, some book or event, boyhood experiences, and career prospects had also been influential.
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; EAU Clair (Wis.); VOCATIONAL guidance; COLLEGE teachers; SCHOLARS; UNIVERSITY of Wisconsin (Eau Claire, Wis.)
- Publication
Personnel & Guidance Journal, 1965, Vol 44, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
0031-5737
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.2164-4918.1965.tb03498.x