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w e have long recognized that occupational choice is influenced by socioeconomic status (SES) or, for youth in particular, status of the family. Bogie [3], working with high school seniors, concluded that SES was a strong predictor of the discrepancy between an individual's career aspirations and career selection. The higher an individual's SES was, the less discrepancy one foresaw between career aspirations and attainment. Previous surveys among both adults and youths have identified a positive relationship between SES and individual educational and occupational potential. In a survey of adult men, Duncan [5] reported that SES had an independent effect on individual educational achievement. Both Blau and Duncan [2] and Duncan and Featherman [6] have shown a strong positive correlation between family SES and one's occupational aspirations and attainment.Sewell, Haller, and Straus's [9] surveying of high school seniors showed a positive relationship between SES and educational and occupational aspirations of young women. In a later study, Sewell and Shaw [lo] concluded that, for women, SES had a greater effect than intelligence on selection of, attendance in, and graduation from college. Empey [7], in a study on male high school seniors, concluded that individuals from high SES family situations had higher occupational aspirations than those from lower SES families. He pointed to a positive relationship between SES and future vocational decisions.

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