Occupational Choice: The Significance of Socio-Economic and Political Factors

Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 152-162

  Galvaan, Roshan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Choices, decisions about and between occupations; Concept of occupational justice, individual's choice; Gamtaal, a Cape Flats dialect of Afrikaans, working class coloured identity; Hegemonic occupational choices, influences on young adolescents; Lavender Hill, relocating to kortse, as adolescents' occupational choices; Lavender Hill, working class community, acceptance of economic limitations; Occupational choice, implications for occupational science, occupational therapy; Occupational choice, socio economic and political factors; Physical structures as predicated patterns, acceptance of a standard of living; Socio economic class, and predicated patterns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873398160     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118281581.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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