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Lee, Courtland C. – Journal of Non-White Concerns in Personnel and Guidance, 1985
Examined differences in occupational aspirations, expectations, and anticipatory occupational goal deflection in rural Black, White, and Native American adolescents (N=520). Results indicated few ethnic differences in aspirations. Females aspired to higher level occupations but experienced expectations lower than aspirations more often than males.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Black Students, Career Choice, High School Students
Download full textKuvlesky, 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
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The purpose of this comparison was to examine qualitative differences between male and female occupational aspirations to better understand similarities and/or differences in level of aspiration. Selected samples of students (3,123) and mothers (425) from 2 regional research projects constituted the source of data. Respondents were from low income…
Descriptors: American Indians, Anglo Americans, Blacks, Clerical Occupations
ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM. – 1977
One of a series on selected topics, this bibliography of resource materials and research findings is drawn from ERIC documents; the 42 citations on rural youth cover expectations and aspirations about education, occupation, residence, marriage, and procreation (several are historical change studies), and focus on such influences as race, sex,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Academic Aspiration, American Indians, Anglo Americans
Kuvlesky, William P. – 1976
Studies on U.S. rural youth indicate current regional and ethnic diversity; limited rural-urban differences; and some limited social change in terms of values, needs, and aspirations. The size of the rural youth population is considerable (25,013,948 out of a total youth population of 93,313,518 in 1970). The majority of rural youth are white…
Descriptors: American Indians, Aspiration, Blacks, Cultural Differences
De Hoyos, Genevieve – 1971
The main thesis of this study is that the failure of the American Indian to achieve social and economic integration in American society during a century of reservation life, and specifically the failure of the Indian family to prepare its youth to face the competitive expectations of the other social institutions, is directly related to the…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Acculturation, American Indians, Boarding Schools
