TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1969//
TI  - Relative Occupational Anticipations and Aspirations of Delinquents and Nondelinquents
JO  - Journal of research in crime and delinquency
A1  - Fredericks, M. A.
A1  - Molnar, M.
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
N2  - This study examines the levels of occupational aspirations and anticipations of a group of delinquent and nondelinquent boys in relation to their fathers' occupation. The two groups were controlled in respect to sex (only boys), age (only seventeen- year-olds), race (only whites and Negroes), and social class. The delinquent sample comprised sixty-one boys confined to a mid western training school. The control was made up of seventy boys from upper working-class and lower middle-class neighbor hoods in the Chicago area. The study findings include the following: (1) Almost three of every four nondelinquents anticipate higher occupations than those of their fathers; (2) Negro delinquents hope to obtain occupations above the level of their fathers; and (3) Negro boys appear to be most motivated to rise above the occupational levels of their fathers. However, so far as relative goal discrepancy is concerned, the lower-class Negro in the sample study reflects the lowest degree of confidence.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0022-4278
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002242786900600101
ID  - ref1
ER  -