Perception of General High School and Religious High School Seniors Toward Different Professional Careers in Terms of Their Prestige: Factors Affecting Prestige of Professional Careers

One of the most important decisious for people is to choose a profession. New professions, appearing makes difficult to choose one. It is known that, skills and interest ranks first when choosing a profession. But when individuals choose a profession, the prestige of it is one of the effective factors on the behaviors of choosing a profession.Aim of this study is to find out what occupations are thought to be prestigious by the students of general high school and religious high school and the reasons of this. And also the aim is to find out if there are differences between the reasons of prestigious occupations of the students of high school and religious high school.In our study, the amount of money is important for the students of religious high school but for the general high school students the importance of occupation in the society is accepted to be important .