Information obtained by combining data collected from a panel of high school sophomores (1966) and seniors (1968) with a recent post-high school follow-up (1972) is used to address the question: Do youth, both whites and blacks, who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly…

Patterns of congruency and deflection in occupational and educational attitudes and attainment of Southern, nonmetropolitan youth are reported. Aspirations and expectation levels for future occupational and educational attainment were found to be "unrealistic" in terms of available opportunities and also appeared to be marginal related…

Educational and occupational status projections are conceptualized as mobility linked social psychological components of more general status attainment models. Limitations of such submodels are noted and a rationale is offered. Investigating the stability and reciprocal linkage of 2 status projection variables in a subset of a Southern Youth…

This study seeks an answer to one broad question, "Do black children who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly different (either higher or lower) from black children who attend racially segregated schools?" To facilitate this, the study not only examines the…

Career and career related preference expressed by a number of rural Southern high school youth were found to moderately predict their early adult behaviors. Preferences for post high school education were the dominant influence and single best predictor of subsequent educational attainment. Moderate linkages were also found to exist between…