Occupational Aspirations of the Male Students in a Selected High School
This study investigated the occupational aspirations and actual occupational expectations of high school boys with high and low socio-economic backgrounds in relation to their attitudes toward monetary success as a life goal, their attitudes toward work as a value their acceptance of illegitimate me...
| Published in: | The American catholic sociological review |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1962
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The American catholic sociological review
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| Summary: | This study investigated the occupational aspirations and actual occupational expectations of high school boys with high and low socio-economic backgrounds in relation to their attitudes toward monetary success as a life goal, their attitudes toward work as a value their acceptance of illegitimate means and their perception of the opportunities accessible in the social structure for the realization of their goal. For this purpose a questionnaire including attitude scales was administered to 141 students the entire male enrollment of a co-educational parochial high school. The general hypotheses tested are: (1) Levels of occupational aspirations will vary directly with socio-economic status. (2) Socio-economic status differences will be reflected in the respondents' attitudes toward money work, opportunity, and the acceptance of illegitimate means. (3) Attitudes toward money, work, opportunity, and the acceptance of illegitimate means will be related to occupational aspirations. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The American catholic sociological review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3708584 |