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Bogie, Donald Wayne – 1970
In an effort to determine whether there are differences in areas of residence that affect the aspirations and expectations of young people living therein, this study examined occupational and educational aspirations of 1,835 rural high school seniors from 3 sociocultural contexts in Kentucky: (1) a low-opportunity, rural-poverty area in central…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Aspiration, Doctoral Dissertations, Economic Factors
Hamilton, William L.; And Others – 1970
Focusing on individual decisions, the study examined why the rural poor migrated to urban areas. Rural-to-urban migrants were those persons having lived in places of less than 25,000 population and currently residing in major cities. Southeastern blacks, Appalachian whites, and Southwestern Spanish Americans were interviewed in two…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Factors
