Race and Sex Influences in the Schooling Processes of Rural and Small Town Youth

摘要: This paper assesses how race and sex act to determine the educational performance career aspirations of over 3,000 students enrolled in 23 public schools Mississippi. The data, collected 1972, pertain schooling experiences small town rural students. results strongly support conclusions Wisconsin researchers others concerning dynamics early achievement processes for whites. Moreover, we find that even as 1972 social origins, academic aptitude, facilitated or retarded subsequent interpersonal aspirational outcomes differently whites two sexes. model, moreover, yields much poorer explanations "ambition" among blacks both sexes differences are smaller than they A major difference by is expectations depend less on status origins those