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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
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1978
A comparative analysis of the findings of three studies involving widely varying ethnic groupings of rural youth was conducted in order to evolve a speculative frame of propositions about religion as a variable attribute of the life situation of rural youth, and to speculate about the possible significance of patterned variability in religious…
Descriptors: Amish, Behavior Patterns, Black Youth, Comparative Analysis
Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas – 1973
The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas…
Descriptors: Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Ethnic Groups, High School Students
Masterson, Albert C. – 1968
A questionnaire of 50 items covering five categories of statements designed to determine their perceptions of office work was administered to 498 advantaged and 477 disadvantaged rural high school girls in six states, and to 326 city office employees throughout the United States who had attended a rural high school no more than three years prior…
Descriptors: Advantaged, Clerical Workers, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences
Chu, Lily; Culbertson, Jeanne – 1982
Questionnaires were administered to 73 sophomore and senior high school students in 3 isolated rural Alaska towns (Adak, Unalaska, and Dillingham) to study the effects of socio-economic factors on rural Alaskan youth's educational aspirations and expectations. Because of a military-supported economy, Adak was a typical middle class American…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Comparative Analysis
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1977
One of a series of bibliographies on selected topics, this annotated bibliography includes 116 citations on the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of rural youth. Citations are derived from the ERIC monthly publications "Resources in Education" (RIE) and "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE).…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Annotated Bibliographies