Many college students hold ambitious goals for upward social mobility via post-college careers. However, in the current economic recession such optimistic expectations are not a given. The present study examines how college students' current social status and beliefs in causal factors for socioeconomic status (SES) attainment lead to diverging…

Conducted longitudinal study of job change among 1,100 British managers. Repeated measures of perceived work characteristics, self concepts, and work preferences revealed that particular types of job change (employer moves, status shifts, and function change) had characteristic outcomes. Job change was associated with increases in perceived…

This article describes a qualitative study examining two interrelated facets of the school-to-work transition among urban high school students: their relationships with important adults within that transition and the ways they experience the subjective aspects of social class and class-related constructs in those relationships. Participants were…

The broad purpose of this paper was to investigate orientations toward military service held by Negro and white teenage boys, utilizing data gathered in rural East Texas during 1966. Negro and white youth were generally positive about military service and lower class youth with high aspirations differed little from other youth in their…

Theoretical statements by Talcott Parsons and others were used as a basis in deriving the hypothesis that degree of identification with the Mexican American subculture among adolescents is inversely related to desire for upward social mobility. (Author)

It was concluded from the findings that the boys and girls studied did maintain a consistently high-level frame of reference. It was observed that boys tended to hold slightly higher educational and income goals and to demonstrate a higher level of consistency across goal levels in their frame of reference. (Author)

Investigated transition in life activity saliences and work value preferences for period between junior high school and adult employment. Work Importance Study Salience Inventory and Values Scale were completed by 930 high school and university students and adults. Values profiles of cohorts at different points of vocational development appeared…