ABSTRACT
The concept of commitment enjoys use in studies of occupational careers. This chapter explains the fact that men ordinarily settle down to a career in a limited field, and do not change jobs and careers with the alacrity of the proverbial economic man under changing market conditions, by referring to a process whereby they become committed to a particular occupation. In author view, use of the concept of commitment in current sociology constitutes an attempt to solve the problem of explaining consistent human behavior in a sociological way without the flaws often attributed to the theories just reviewed. Sociologists use it in analyses of both individual and organizational behaviour. Sociologists typically make use of the concept of commitment when they are trying to account for the fact that people engage in consistent lines of activity. Many kinds of consistent behavior will probably prove unexplainable in its terms.
