- I will write a paper so that I have the flexibility to explore the themes respondents identify and can easily put those themes in conversation with the many, many relevant texts we read this year.
- After the interviews, this paper shifted its focus from older generations’ perceptions of millennial workplace entitlement to how millennials judge one another’s career choices because that turned out to be the most interesting and unexpected outcome of the interviews.
- Road map:
- This paper will first examine the salient values that guide respondents’ job desires and choices—passion, work-life balance, altruism and pay—and examine how they rationally way the benefits and costs of jobs according to these ideals.
- This paper will then turn to how millennials judge one another for selling out. Respondents identify a paradox of privilege of selling out in which both the choices to sell out and not to require various forms of capital.
- Respondents therefore temper their judgements based on people’s socioeconomic status and other identities.
- Finally, this paper will turn to how respondents use comparisons to sell-outs to position themselves as authentic individuals with agency and varying levels of autonomy.
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Kendall Schutzer – Sociology 3010 – Spring 2018
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