ABSTRACT
In contradistinction to other disciplines, the sociological approach to the study of personality and personality change views the person as a member of a social structure. Yet central to any account of adult identity is the relation of change in identity to change in social position; for it is characteristic of adult life to afford and force frequent and momentous passages from status to status. The student of careers must also be sensitized to discover what training is essential or highly important to the passage from one status to another. When each status is conceived as the logical and temporal extension of the one previous, then severance is not so disturbing. Interdependence Of Careers is to be found in the phenomenon of sponsorship, where individuals move up in a work organization through the activities of older and more-well-established men.
