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Peer reviewedLaegran, Anne Sofie – Journal of Rural Studies, 2002
A study in two Norwegian villages focused on the local gas station and the Internet cafe as "technospaces" for rural youth cultures--spaces at the intersection of technology and human interaction. The car and the Internet were given different symbolic and utility values in various youth subcultures. Local contexts influenced technology…
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Foreign Countries, Internet, Rural Youth
Peer reviewedSkogen, Ketil – Rural Sociology, 2001
Interviews with rural Norwegian youth about wolves and related environmental controversies found a range of viewpoints related to education and social class. The results reveal a conflict between dominant and subordinate forms of knowledge and between abstraction-oriented and production-oriented cultural forms. Modernization is removing many rural…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Culture Conflict, Educational Attitudes, Foreign Countries
Download full textSchwarzweller, Harry K. – 1976
Comparing survey responses of U.S. rural youth (1,142 males and 1,148 females) with those of Norwegian rural youth (660 males and 650 females at the comprehensive school level and 237 males and 192 females at the secondary level), youth career orientations were analyzed in terms of career desiderata and sex differentials, social class origins, and…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Career Choice, Career Planning, Comparative Analysis
Clay, Daniel C. – 1976
Using data obtained from recent cross-national and longitudinal studies, the link between family influences and the traditional patterns of school achievement were assessed in terms of rural educational mobility and sex differentials within the context of the "sponsored" system of Norway's schools and the "contest" system…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Schwarzweller, Harry K.; Lyson, Thomas A. – 1976
Focusing specifically on teaching as a career goal among rural youth in Norway, Germany, and the United States, this cross-national comparative study took into account the general patterning of career ambitions in each society--upward mobility opportunities, status attainment strategies, and organizational character of the educational systems…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Choice, Comparative Analysis, Females
Peer reviewedDahlstrom, Margareta – Journal of Rural Studies, 1996
Suggests that young women migrate from rural to urban areas in northern Scandinavia because the rural "periphery" is dominated by male economic and leisure activities. A study in northern Norway indicates that more young women than young men valued higher education and highly qualified careers, both of which were more attainable in urban…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Economic Factors, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities
