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3. Career Plans of Farm Reared Boys : A Cross Cultural Study

3. Career Plans of Farm Reared Boys : A Cross Cultural Study 271 3. Career Plans of Farm Reared Boys : A Cross Cultural Study THOMAS A. LYSON Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., U.S.A. Introduction Research by Burchinal (1962), Haller and Sewell (1957), Haller (1960, 1967, 1969) and others reveals that farm reared young people in the United States tend to have relatively lower educational and occupational ambitions than their urban or rural non-farm counterparts. Residential isolation, in- accessability of occupational alternatives and low socio-economic circumstances have frequently been cited as reasons why young people from farm backgrounds manifest low career ambitions. Characteristics associated with a farm upbringing exist, of course, within larger societal contexts where structural conditions, national ideology, norms and ti aditions function to sort out youth for particular career roles. In Norway, for example, a new educational philosophy mirrored in the recent restructuring of educational opportunities has provided additional incentives for working class young people to continue in school (Schwarzweller and Lyson 1974). The importance of variations in social contexts, opportunity structures and the socio-economic circumstances that characterize those contexts, in under- standing the allocation of life chances among rural young people, has not gone unnoticed - see for example the works of Planck (1970), Sewell and Orenstein http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Brill
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© 1978 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
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1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854278X00103
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271 3. Career Plans of Farm Reared Boys : A Cross Cultural Study THOMAS A. LYSON Clemson University, Clemson, S.C., U.S.A. Introduction Research by Burchinal (1962), Haller and Sewell (1957), Haller (1960, 1967, 1969) and others reveals that farm reared young people in the United States tend to have relatively lower educational and occupational ambitions than their urban or rural non-farm counterparts. Residential isolation, in- accessability of occupational alternatives and low socio-economic circumstances have frequently been cited as reasons why young people from farm backgrounds manifest low career ambitions. Characteristics associated with a farm upbringing exist, of course, within larger societal contexts where structural conditions, national ideology, norms and ti aditions function to sort out youth for particular career roles. In Norway, for example, a new educational philosophy mirrored in the recent restructuring of educational opportunities has provided additional incentives for working class young people to continue in school (Schwarzweller and Lyson 1974). The importance of variations in social contexts, opportunity structures and the socio-economic circumstances that characterize those contexts, in under- standing the allocation of life chances among rural young people, has not gone unnoticed - see for example the works of Planck (1970), Sewell and Orenstein

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1978

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