Title: Aspirations, Class and Racial-Ethnic Membership
Abstract: * data on which this paper is based were collected in 1958. niumeographed report was written in '1959, by which time I had gone abroad, where I was to stay until 1965. Involved in other matters, and far away from the renewed urgency of the problems with which the paper deals, I did not turn my hand to it till now, (1966), when I again am in direct contact with a situation which has exploded. Without access to the original data, I have debated whether the paper as it stands, without engaging in further analysis, would still merit publication. I concluded, thinking in a 1966 context, that it would -'evidently the editors have concurred. 1 Volney Faw, Interests of Chicago Negro and White High School Junior and Senior Boys (unpublished Ph.D dissertation, University of Chicago, 1948); E. H. Fitchet, The Preferences and Opportunities of Negro College Students, Journal of Negro Education, VII (1938), 498-513; S. Gray, The Preferences of Negro School Children, Journal of Genetic Psychology, LXIV (1944), 239-247; C. Hyte, Occupational Interests of Negro High School Boys, School Review, XLIV (1936), 34-40; P. F. Lawrence, Vocational Aspirations of Negro Youth in California, Journal of Negro Education, XIX (1950), 47-56; P. Whitty, S. Garfield, and W. Brink, A Comparison of the Interests of Negro and White'High School Students Journal of Educational Psychology, XXXII (1941), 124-132. 2 A. Antonovsky and L. Lorwin (eds.) Discrimination and Low Incomes (New York: New York State Commission Against Discrimination, 1959), pp. 103-146. summary paper of this study, by A. Antonovsky cluding school dropouts as well as some who had entered colleges, all of whom were from the same lower class area in a highly industrialized small Northem city, it was found that the Negroes had a higher level of aspiration than the whites. We cautioned the reader that this was a small city with a relatively stable Negro population, that a number of whites had been lost to the sample, and that no inferences could be drawn with regard to middle-class youth.
Publication Year: 1967
Publication Date: 1967-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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