The Disadvantaged Student, Goal Blockage, and the Occupational Aspirations of Southern Youth [electronic resource] / Arthur Cosby.
The paper served as a report on research in progress that attempted to evaluate the effects of group disparity on the occupational choice of southern high school students. It focused specifically on the aspiration choices of 8,802 tenth grade students in 4 southern states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississi...
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| Summary: | The paper served as a report on research in progress that attempted to evaluate the effects of group disparity on the occupational choice of southern high school students. It focused specifically on the aspiration choices of 8,802 tenth grade students in 4 southern states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. The relative effects of class, race, and residence were investigated. An adaptation of the "backward elimination procedure" was used to select models for analysis. It was found that the proportion of students with high level occupational aspirations in all subclasses was relatively high. Approximately of the students in the more disadvantaged groups had high level aspirations; e.g., of the rural Negro students whose fathers had low level occupations and education, 53% had high level occupational aspirations. There were similar findings for the other disadvantaged groups. It was hypothesized that, as the adolescent begins to consider the means required to obtain his occupational goal, the likelihood of the perception of limiting factors (goal blockage) increased. It was anticipated that students in the lower classes (rural and Negro students) would tend to have lower aspirations. The failure of the Negro students to follow the general pattern of the other disparity groups presented a conceptual problem for the original formulation. (KM) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED089926. Sponsoring Agency: Cooperative State Research Service (USDA), Washington, DC. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Southern Agricultural Workers Meeting, Mobile, AL, February 1969. Educational level discussed: Grade 10. |
| Physical Description: | 20 p. |