TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational opportunities and occupational aspirations: a two-dimensional approach
AU - Ayalon, Hanna
AU - Yuchtman-Yaar, Ephraim
N1 - Accession Number: 508327739; Authors:Ayalon, Hanna; Yuchtman-Yaar, Ephraim; Physical Description: Bibliography; Subject: Goal (Psychology); Subject: Occupations; Subject: Ability grouping (Education); Subject: High schools; Subject: Educational equalization; Subject: School facilities; Subject: Vocational interests; Subject: High school students; Subject: Vocational guidance; Subject: Ambition; Subject: Israel; Number of Pages: 12p; Record Type: Article
PY - 1989
Y1 - 1989
N2 - This article proposes that the study of early career formation has failed to notice that inequalities in educational opportunities may generate alternative patterns of occupational aspirations. In particular, standard scales of aspirations cannot identify the economically ambitious who aim at occupations that generate high income but require low education. This type of ambition is likely when schooling cannot function as an effective means of mobility. To examine this proposition, the authors constructed a scale that captures this dimension and used it, together with the standard scale, to study the occupational aspirations of high school students in Israel. The results show that the aspiration levels for the two dimensions are affected by individual (gender) and institutional (tracking) factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
AB - This article proposes that the study of early career formation has failed to notice that inequalities in educational opportunities may generate alternative patterns of occupational aspirations. In particular, standard scales of aspirations cannot identify the economically ambitious who aim at occupations that generate high income but require low education. This type of ambition is likely when schooling cannot function as an effective means of mobility. To examine this proposition, the authors constructed a scale that captures this dimension and used it, together with the standard scale, to study the occupational aspirations of high school students in Israel. The results show that the aspiration levels for the two dimensions are affected by individual (gender) and institutional (tracking) factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
KW - Goal (Psychology)
KW - Occupations
KW - Ability grouping (Education)
KW - High schools
KW - Educational equalization
KW - School facilities
KW - Vocational interests
KW - High school students
KW - Vocational guidance
KW - Ambition
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U2 - 10.2307/2112868
DO - 10.2307/2112868
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SN - 0038-0407
VL - 62
SP - 208
EP - 219
JO - Sociology of Education
JF - Sociology of Education
IS - 3
ER -
