The objects of occupational selection are persons most of whom have been reared in families in which they have inherited sets of social objects and attitudes more or less common to the community. The division of labor operates on these persons, in an urbanized world, by mobilizing them from their milieu natal (Durkheim) and making them available at the points where competition will give them a place. The completeness of this mobilization varies in different types of occupations: the completeness of personality change of those who enter the occupation varies with it. Sometimes the mobilization of the person is of another sort, involving conversion, long professional training, and development of esoteric skill and interests. The more mobile and esoteric the occupational type, the more completely are familial and local ties and mores left behind. The person finds a "life-organization" in the occupational group, social objects and attitudes, and definitions of his whishes. A division of labor may be sacred or...