ABSTRACT Drawing on pragmatic and occupational sociology, this paper examines how individuals in Sweden embark on occupations that are in nascent stage and for work tasks that are weakly defined. I accompanied a group of aspirants as they moved from a higher vocational education programme into the labour market, following their learning journeys towards emerging occupational roles. The present paper focuses on how they face reality tests related to their unclear occupational futures and the navigation of ethical grey zones when in the labour market. These tests occur in transition from education to work, and particularly for emerging occupations, due to the uncertain and fragile logics that surround new work tasks; in this case, offering digital data services. Through encountering these tests, aspirants are offered the opportunity to negotiate and develop moral competence, although they vary in their coping strategies. The findings of this analysis set out to contribute to the literature on how individuals are prepared for emerging occupations and propose the concept of ‘weak-form occupations’ as a means to characterise and examine education to work pathways that are less intuitive or predictable.

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现实测试：引导教育从工作过渡到弱势职业

摘要借鉴务实和职业社会学，本文研究了瑞典的个人如何着手进行处于萌芽阶段的工作以及从事定义不明确的工作任务。我跟随一群有抱负的人，随着他们的学习之旅朝着新兴的职业角色发展，他们从高等职业教育计划进入劳动力市场。本文着重于他们在劳动力市场中如何面对与其不确定的职业前途和道德灰色地带相关的现实测试。由于围绕新工作任务的不确定性和脆弱逻辑，这些测试发生在从教育到工作的过渡中，尤其是对于新兴职业。在这种情况下，提供数字数据服务。通过遇到这些测试，尽管他们的应对策略各不相同，但仍为有抱负的人提供了谈判和发展道德能力的机会。分析的结果旨在为有关如何为新兴职业做好个人准备的文献做出贡献，并提出“弱形式职业”的概念，作为表征和检验不那么直观或可预测的工作途径的教育的手段。