ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the nature of the area of career movement among teachers and describes the types of careers found in this group. It demonstrates the existence, among Chicago schoolteachers, of a "horizontal" plane of career strivings and movements and traces the kind of career patterns which occur, at this level, in a public bureaucracy where movement is achieved through manipulation of formal procedures. The chapter suggests that studies of other occupations, in which greater emphasis on vertical movement may obscure the presence and effects of such horizontal mobility, might well direct their attention to such phenomena. The career patterns found in the social matrix may not be typical of all career movements of this horizontal type. The chapter explores the phenomenon of adjustment to a particular work situation, the way changes in the individual's perspectives and social relationships acted to tie him to the particular situation and to make it difficult for him to consider movement to another.
