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Download full textKuvlesky, William P.; Dameron, Jane – 1970
The hypotheses to be tested by this study were (1) that Negro youth are more positively oriented toward participation in military service than white youth and (2) that lower class youth with high aspirations are more positively oriented toward military service than other youth. Respondents were male high school sophomores from 3 schools located in…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks
Kuvlesky, William P.; Gonzalez, Ruth Bagnall – 1974
The report provided findings from a recent Texas study of historical change in educational status projections of rural Black and White teenage boys and girls. The specific research objectives were to determine: (1) the nature and extent of historical change patterns occurring, by race, for educational aspiration, expectation, anticipatory goal…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Black Students, Disadvantaged Youth
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1972
Identical instruments and procedures were used to collect data on military orientations from 98 Black boys who attended predominantly Black high schools in nonmetropolitan East Texas and 111 Blacks attending an all-Black high school in Houston, Texas, during the spring, 1966. The hypotheses tested were (1) that nonmetropolitan Black boys have more…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, Attitudes, Blacks
Kuvlesky, William P.; And Others – 1976
Research objectives were to determine the extent to which ethnic variability existed in reference to male and female: occupational aspirations (type, level, and intensity); occupational expectations (type, level, and certainty); and anticipatory goal deflection. Data were derived from surveys of the following rural youth (high school sophomores)…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Comparative Analysis
Juarez, Rumaldo Z.; Kuvlesky, William P. – 1968
A study of the educational status orientations of tenth grade Mexican-American and Anglo boys in economically depressed areas of Texas found that the 2 groups had similarly high educational goals. Detailed analysis of data revealed that Anglo boys had a tendency to express more frequently high educational goals as compared to their…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Aspiration, College Entrance Examinations, Comparative Analysis
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1983
The thesis that Mexican Americans share a monolithic, "pathological" subculture that causes difficulties Mexican American children may have in adapting to Anglo society is challenged, using data from studies of Mexican American families and youth. Origin of the theory that all Mexican Americans share a negative subculture is detailed,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anglo Americans, Behavior Theories, Cultural Differences
