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KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK ACHIEVERS AND THE MOBILITY ATTITUDES, ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF BLACK YOUTHS

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1973
Summary:
The literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized relationships are at best weak. However, the fact that the strong relationships generally cited as existing between parents' education and occupation and their children's mobility attitudes were also not found indicates a need for further research regarding the variables that could possibly influence black mobility aspirations and expectations.
Title: KNOWLEDGE OF BLACK ACHIEVERS AND THE MOBILITY ATTITUDES, ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS OF BLACK YOUTHS.
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Name(s): BOLLING, ERIC R.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Tittle, Charles, Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Sociology
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1973
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 85 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The literature concerning achievement motivation suggests a relationship between youths' awareness of similar trait occupational role models and their mobility aspirations and expectations. The research study presented here was conducted to test the hypothesis that the amount of knowledge black youths have of black achievers is positively related to their mobility attitudes, and their occupational and educational aspirations and expectations. The data indicate that the hypothesized relationships are at best weak. However, the fact that the strong relationships generally cited as existing between parents' education and occupation and their children's mobility attitudes were also not found indicates a need for further research regarding the variables that could possibly influence black mobility aspirations and expectations.
Identifier: 13604 (digitool), FADT13604 (IID), fau:10445 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1973.
Subject(s): Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
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