The effects of social position, race, and sex on work values of ninth-grade students

Thomas, Hollie B.

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“…Some of the studies not only revealed that blacks had similar work values to whites but that in some instances, blacks evidenced higher work values than whites. Thomas (1974), however, examined the relationship of social position, race, and sex on the work values of ninth-grade students. White students expressed a significantly greater value for each of the work value constructs outlined by Super and Bohn (1970).…”

Section: Concept Of Work and Career Adjustmentmentioning

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The Black Female Adolescent: A Review of the Educational, Career and Psychological Literature

Smith

1982

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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This article presents a basic overview of the literature on the educational, career, and psychological development of black female adolescents. Adolescence is defined primarily in terms of individuals' attempts to deal effectively with life developmental tasks. As such, adolescence is viewed as that broad period covering the ages of 12 to 2 1 . Emphasis is placed, however, on the early and midstages of adolescent development. Comparisons and contrasts are made regarding the development of black female, black male, white male, and white female adolescents.Generally speaking, the black female adolescent has been underrepresented in educational, psychological, and career literature. Consequently, much of what we know about young black females consists of bits and pieces of fragmented knowledge. More attention has usually been placed on studying black males, white female adolescents, or black and white women. For instance, Psychological Abstracts for 1977 cited only fourteen sources relating to black female adolescents. A similar ERIC search for approximately the same time period yielded fifteen references pertaining to black female adolescents and college women. Only a few of these sources were, however, articles which related to the career development of members of this racial and age group. As Lightfoot (1976) has stated: "Young black girls are an ignored and invisible population" (p. 239).This situation may be attributed to a number of factors. Compared to their male counterparts, black female adolescents have a tendency to exhibit fewer behavioral difficulties (Pettigrew, 1964). An analogous

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Section: Concept Of Work and Career Adjustmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Black Female Adolescent: A Review of the Educational, Career and Psychological Literature

Smith

1982

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…Gender is by far the most often studied factor differentiating judgments about work (e.g., Bridges, 1989;Herzog, 1982;Kalleberg & Loscocco, 1983;Leuptow, 1980;Lyson, 1984;Johnson, 2001aJohnson, , 2001bJohnson & Mortimer, 2000;Marini et al, 1996;Martin & Tuch, 1993;Morgan & Carney, 1985;Mortimer et al, 1996;Tolbert & Moen, 1998). Social class origins and cohort are also of frequent interest (Kalleberg & Loscocco, 1983;Leuptow, 1980;Lindsay & Knox, 1984;Loscocco, 1989;Loscocco & Kalleberg, 1988;Marini et al, 1996;Martin & Tuch, 1993;Mortimer & Kumka, 1982;Thomas, 1974;Tolbert & Moen 1998). Conclusions about cohort, social class origins, and gender differences are dependent on there being a common structure to work orientations.…”

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Judgments About Work

Johnson

Mortimer

Lee

et al. 2007

Work and Occupations

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The authors examine the measurement structure of individuals' orientations toward work rewards, or "judgments about work," a concept central to the social psychology of work. Despite extensive and sustained interest in the level of importance attached to work rewards by major markers of social location such as birth cohort, social class origins, and gender, prior studies have not examined whether the same classification schema captures the underlying variation in judgments about work across these axes of social location. Drawing on five data sets, the authors examine the fit of models corresponding to the recently revived entrepreneurial-bureaucratic classification schema with those corresponding to the dominant extrinsic-intrinsic classification schema across subgroups of the population using confirmatory factor analysis. Findings offer only limited support for reconceptualizing judgments about work along entrepreneurial-bureaucratic dimensions but call for additional research on the dimensions of judgments about work that emerge under distinct conditions and across different groups.

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“…Ethnic group differences in the average level of work values of high school students have been documented in two studies (Thomas, 1974;McCall & Lawler, 1976), but ethnic group differences in the structure of work values have not been investigated. It is of interest that an investigation of the work values of high school students with different post high school plans found that college-bound students placed less importance on occupations being open to minorities than did other students (Ace, Graen, & Dawis, 1972).…”

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Work Values of College Bound and Other High School Students

Stricker¹

1997

ETS Research Report Series

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This study identified the salient work values of college bound and noncollege bound high school students from their perceptions of occupations. Multidimensional scaling analyses of the students' judgments about the similarity of occupations extracted three factors in the college bound sample and seven in the noncollege bound sample. The same blue collar dimension appeared in both samples; additional dimensions in the noncollege bound sample were fragments of the broader dimensions in the college bound sample. These results indicate that the perceptions were more differentiated for the noncollege bound students than for the other students, but did not reflect different aspects of occupations, implying that the same work values were salient for both groups.

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The effects of social position, race, and sex on work values of ninth-grade students

Cited by 12 publications

References 12 publications

The Black Female Adolescent: A Review of the Educational, Career and Psychological Literature

The Black Female Adolescent: A Review of the Educational, Career and Psychological Literature

Judgments About Work

Work Values of College Bound and Other High School Students

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