Opportunities for career success: Views of poor and middle-class children

Weinger, Susan

doi:10.1016/s0190-7409(99)00071-7

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“…Although certainly dated, the same argument is forwarded today. For example, a recent study shows that poor children projected their likelihood of career success to be much less than that of their middle-class peers (Weinger, 2000).…”

Section: Social Reproduction and Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Socializing Messages in Blue-Collar Families: Communicative Pathways to Social Mobility and Reproduction

Lucas

2011

Western Journal of Communication

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This study explicitly links processes of anticipatory socialization to social mobility and reproduction. An examination of the socializing messages exchanged between blue-collar parents (n = 41) and their children (n = 25) demonstrate that family-based messages about work and career seldom occur in straightforward, unambiguous ways. Instead, messages take several paths (direct, indirect, ambient, and omission). Further, the content of messages communicated along these paths often is contradictory. That is, sons and daughters receive messages that both encourage and discourage social mobility. Ultimately, these individuals must negotiate the meanings of family-based anticipatory socialization communicated to them through a mix of messages.

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Section: Social Reproduction and Mobilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Socializing Messages in Blue-Collar Families: Communicative Pathways to Social Mobility and Reproduction

Lucas

2011

Western Journal of Communication

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“…It is clear that future research must be more inclusive in studying children from diverse socioeconomic, racial, ethnic, gender, and special-needs groups. Given that economic and oppressive forces exert a powerful influence on students' academic success and career expectations, students from economically challenged schools face many obstacles in effectively preparing for a successful transition to work (Weinger, 2000). Working from a literature base largely focused on middle-class suburban youth, there is much to be learned about the needs of all children, not just those from more privileged backgrounds.…”

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Current Status and Future Agenda for the Theory, Research, and Practice of Childhood Career Development

Schultheiss

2008

The Career Development Quart

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This article reviews the current status and a future agenda for childhood career development theory, research, and practice. The fragmented nature of the current state of the literature is noted, and a call is made for a reexamination and reconsideration of the childhood developmental pathways of life's work. It is suggested that the study of children's work behavior be rooted in life contexts, most notably, families, communities, and schools.

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“…The existing research on the factors that influence the career aspirations of children has found evidence that several personal, familial, environmental, and systemic factors can impact children's preferences for future occupations. Specifically, factors such as parents' occupations (Trice, Hughes, Odom, Woods, & McClellan, 1995;Trice & Knapp, 1992), maternal employment (Selkow, 1984), television role models (King & Multon, 1996), gender-role stereotypes (Franken, 1983;Henderson, Hesketh, & Tuffin, 1988;MacKay & Miller, 1982;Vondracek & Kirchener, 1974), socioeconomic status (Awender & Wearne, 1990;Henderson et al, 1988;MacKay & Miller, 1982;Weinger, 2000), quality of the mother-daughter attachment relationship (Rainey & Borders, 1997), agentic characteristics (Rainey & Borders, 1997), and the relative distribution of power in the parental dyad (Lavine, 1982) have been found to impact and shape children's career aspirations.…”

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Perceived influences on the career choices of children and youth: an exploratory study

Howard

Flanagan

Castine

et al. 2015

Int J Educ Vocat Guidance

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Children's understanding of factors influencing their career choices was examined. Seventy-two children, in grades kindergarten, 4, and 8, responded to questions about their perceptions of career influences. Responses were coded to capture the nature of the influences identified, including the global versus specific and linear versus interacting nature of these influences. Further, influences were coded as existing proximal versus distal to the child. Results indicate that older children identified more career influences that were either specific or categorical and interacted in dynamic ways. No evidence was found for older children offering influences that existed at a systems level of organization.Résumé. Influences perçues sur les choix de carrière par les enfants et les jeunes: Une étude exploratoire. Nous avons investigué la compréhension des enfants quant aux facteurs influençant leurs choix de carrière. Septante-deux enfants issus des niveaux 1 er , 4 ème et 8 ème degrés scolaires ont répondu à des questions portant sur leurs perceptions des influences sur les parcours professionnels. Les réponses ont été codées dans le but d'extraire la nature des influences identifiées, y compris la nature globale versus spécifique, et linéaire versus interactive de ces influences. De plus, les influences ont été codées comme étant proximales versus distales vis-à-vis de l'enfant. Les résultats indiquent que les enfants plus âgés ont identifié davantage d'influences de carrière qui étaient soit spécifiques soit catégorielles et qui interagissaient de manière dynamique. Il n'a pas été démontré que les enfants plus âgés proposaient des influences existant à un niveau organisationnel des systèmes. Aucune preuve n'a été trouvée pour les enfants plus âgés proposant des influences qui existaient au niveau des systèmes des organisations.Zusammenfassung. Wahrgenommene Einflüsse auf Karriere/Laufbahnentscheidungen bei Kindern und Jugendlichen: Eine explorative Studie. Wir untersuchten das Verständnis von Kindern im Bezug auf Einflussfaktoren bzgl. ihrer beruflichen Laufbahn. 72 Kinder aus dem Kindergarten und Klasse 4 und 8 haben Fragen zu ihrer Vorstellung von Laufbahneinflüssen beantwortet. Die Antworten wurden so kodiert, dass sie die natürlichen Einflüsse identifizieren, sowohl die globalen und die spezifischen, als auch die linearen versus die interaktionalen Einflüsse. Weiter wurden die Einflüsse in proximal und distal codiert. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass ältere Kinder mehrere Laufbahneinflüsse identifizieren die entweder spezifisch oder kategorial sind und auf dynamische Weise miteinander interagieren. Es wurden keine Hinweise dafür gefunden, dass ältere Kinder Einflüsse anführen, die sich auf das Systemlevel der Organisation beziehen.Resumen. Influencias detectadas en la elección de carreras entre niñ os y jóve-nes: Un estudio exploratorio. Se examina la comprensión infantil sobre los factores que influyen en la elección de la carrera. 72 niños, de escuelas infantiles, grado 4 y 8, respondieron a preguntas acer...

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Opportunities for career success: Views of poor and middle-class children

Cited by 80 publications

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Socializing Messages in Blue-Collar Families: Communicative Pathways to Social Mobility and Reproduction

Socializing Messages in Blue-Collar Families: Communicative Pathways to Social Mobility and Reproduction

Current Status and Future Agenda for the Theory, Research, and Practice of Childhood Career Development

Perceived influences on the career choices of children and youth: an exploratory study

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