Military Orientations of White, Black and Chicano High School Youth: Some Extensions of Prior Empirical Generalizations from a Texas Study.

Autor/inn/en	Kuvlesky, William P.; Dietrich, Katheryn Thomas
Institution	Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Titel	Military Orientations of White, Black and Chicano High School Youth: Some Extensions of Prior Empirical Generalizations from a Texas Study.
Quelle	(1973), (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Black Students; Comparative Analysis; Ethnic Groups; High School Students; Longitudinal Studies; Mexican Americans; Military Service; Minority Groups; Occupational Aspiration; Racial Differences; Rural Youth; Social Differences; Statistical Analysis; Student Attitudes; Texas + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnie; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Hispanoamerikaner; Militärdienst; Ethnische Minderheit; Berufsneigung; Berufsziel; Rassenunterschied; Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Sozialer Unterschied; Statistische Analyse; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas ethnic groups. In addition, the original 1966 respondents were followed up in 1968 when they were seniors. The sophomores of the original 1966 study areas were restudied in 1972. Among the findings of the analysis reported here are the following. All three ethnic types desired military service to a similar extent--a majority of each. The greatest difference between the Chicanos and the other two ethnic types in reference to expectations was that a much higher proportion--almost half of the Chicanos expected to enlist. Adolescent boys' orientations toward military service do not appear to differ very much by ethnic type and do not appear to change greatly over late adolescence. Historical period of time may, however, produce dramatic changes in military orientations of youth: a very dramatic negative drift away from military service was observed between 1966 and 1972 in the occupational status projections of the black and white youth studied here. (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC