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Goodwin, Leonard – Social Problems, 1972
Middle-class respondents mistakenly deny that the work ethic is strong among the poor, fundamentally misunderstand how high work ethic leads to increased feelings of insecurity, and mistakenly project for the poor a strong identification of welfare income with income from quasi-illegal sources. (Author)
Descriptors: Middle Class, Middle Class Standards, Poverty, Role Perception
MacMichael David C. – Manpower, 1974
Problems can be expected to continue in the schools as a result of the impact of new value systems on the old work ethic and on the schools' middle class orientation. Pressures against change from some segments will conflict with the need for schools to transmit the new value systems. (SA)
Descriptors: Aspiration, Career Choice, Career Education, Educational Change
Washburne, Chandler – 1963
This article attempts to demonstrate that an individual's occupational goals become adjusted to the position he is in---blocked goals tend to become of less interest and available goals are of increased interest, which tends to decrease dissonance. The author's hypothesis is that middle class occupational status occupants over a period of time…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Career Development, Emotional Adjustment
Cherrington, David J. – 1972
The purposes of this report are to present the narrations of the slide-tape presentation "Cultural Differences in Industry," and a readers theater script "Understanding Cultural Differences," and to document and describe their development and possible use. These materials were designed as training tools for teaching cultural differences between…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Cross Cultural Training, Culture Conflict, Employer Employee Relationship
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Kahl, Joseph A.; Goering, John M. – Social Problems, 1971
Study concludes that stable jobs among blacks are associated with high levels of personal satisfaction but not political conservatism, since awareness of group deprivation and desire to protest are independent of personal achievement and are not frustrated responses to blocked ambition. (DM)
Descriptors: Blacks, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Satisfaction, Middle Class Standards
Bledstein, Burton – 1976
By the middle of the nineteenth century American society was becoming restructured according to the concept of career. A new middle class emerged, and within it professionalism became the highest goal. The creation of the university in America provided the necessary matrix for its development, making possible new attitudes about authority,…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Education Work Relationship, Educational Benefits, Educational History
Stone, Eugene F. – 1974
Questionnaire data were obtained from 149 enlisted men in the United States Navy. The job scope/satisfaction with the work itself relationship was examined for the study's total sample and for subsamples created by grouping individuals on the basis of their belief in the Protestant ethic (middle-class work norms and values). Job scope may be…
Descriptors: Ethics, Job Development, Job Satisfaction, Middle Class Standards
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Mullen, Brian – New Generation, 1970
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Aspiration, Attitude Change, Culture Conflict
Bolce, Louis Henri; Gray, Susan H. – USA Today, 1978
A surprisingly large number of unemployed persons (25-37 percent) are choosing to remain out of work because they can not find the type of job that suits their skills and interests. The author examines the structural features of American society that encourage voluntary unemployment and offers some tentative proposals to solve the problem.…
Descriptors: Employment Patterns, Government Role, Lower Class, Middle Class Standards
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Green, Donald – New Generation, 1970
Explains why the young have to give their parents new yardsticks by which the latter can measure their childrens maturity and come to understand their moral concerns and convictions. (RJ)
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Generation Gap, Middle Class Standards, Moral Values
Smarr, Erwin R.; Escoll, Philip J. – 1975
In the recent social revolution, rebellious middle-class youth attacked and rejected, among other values, the American middle-class belief in the worthwhileness of work. Although this recent humanistic revolt hardly affected the patterns of working life in America, it influenced attitudes toward work not only among middle-class adolescents and…
Descriptors: Affluent Youth, Humanization, Job Satisfaction, Life Style
Scott, John F. – 1970
This paper explores behavior patterns of lower class black adolescents and contends that their seemingly illogical and irrational behavior is, in fact, meaningful and utilitarian within the context of their environments. The effects of social and residential segregation and the lack of stable social institutions reinforce strong feelings of group…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth
Lackey, L. L.; Jacobs, T. O. – 1972
The study attempted to measure world-of-work values and perceptions at entry and after a period of employment of enrollees in Plan D of the Public Service Careers (PSC) Program, a Federal program designed to bring disadvantaged individuals into Federal employment. A PSC Enrollee Questionnaire, developed from a logical taxonomy of world-of-work…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Entry Workers, Federal Programs, Government Employees
Institute of Life Insurance, New York, NY. – 1974
The probability sample for this national survey of youth's attitudes included 2,510 young people between the ages of 14 and 25 years. Results indicate that at the start of the 1970's there was a major turn about in attitudes. The fast changing attitudes of the 1960's seem to have been replaced by a more stable and conservative set of views and…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Career Choice, Consumer Economics
Yankelovich, Daniel – 1974
Based on 3,522 one- to two-hour personal interviews conducted in 1973, this study compares the 1973 views and attitudes of American youth to a survey conducted in the late 1960's. As a result, significant trends are traced through an era filled with events that deeply affected the lives of young people, such as the peak and ending of the Vietnam…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Change Agents, Democratic Values, Dropout Attitudes
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