Question

In deciding to be an elementary school teacher rather than a neurosurgeon, Georgia gave up her interests first, then her desire for prestige, and third her gender preference for an occupation. This scenario is best described by Gottfredson's concept of

a. career maturity.
b. circumscription.
c. compromise.
d. tolerable sex boundaries.

Answer 1

Answer: c) Compromise.

Step-by-step explanation: Compromise is the act of settlement that is done between two parties with different opinions and thoughts on the same subject. Comprising situation consist of opting the choice than is lower than the desired choice. so that issue does not arise.

According to the case mentioned in the question ,Georgia is giving up her major factors of deciding about the job she wants to take up such as interest ,prestige etc.She is compromising about the factors of the job to reach a settled decision.

Other options are incorrect because career maturity is acting maturely towards career path, circumscription is restricting the circumstances and tolerable sex boundaries is the tolerable limitation in respect with gender .Thus, the correct option is option(c).

Answer 2

Compromise

Explanation:

Gottfredson proposed a concept of compromise. This concept work on the bases of implementation rather than development and aspiration choices in the career. Whenever there needs to be compromised in any field, there would be something sacrificed first that was followed by prestige. In this concept, there has been defined as the concept of the cognitive map. A cognitive map also follows the prestige that mentions the major choice about the occupation based on perception about the prestige of occupation and second is based on sex type job.