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Beasley, Maya Alexandra.

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Perpetuating the occupational achievement gap through the aspirations of African-American and white college students.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Perpetuating the occupational achievement gap through the aspirations of African-American and white college students./
Author:	Beasley, Maya Alexandra.
Description:	206 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4219.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-11A.
Subject:	Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3111688

Perpetuating the occupational achievement gap through the aspirations of African-American and white college students.
Beasley, Maya Alexandra.

Perpetuating the occupational achievement gap through the aspirations of African-American and white college students. - 206 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-11, Section: A, page: 4219.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2004.

Over the past forty years, African-Americans have increased their attendance at college considerably. However, despite this gain, the difference in the status and pay of the jobs occupied by African-Americans and whites remains significant. This study focuses on the ways in which structural barriers and psychological responses to enduring racism engender lower career aspirations of well-educated African-Americans and impede racial parity. With the understanding that aspirations have a profound impact on achievement, this work provides quantitative and qualitative analyses of the differing factors affecting the occupational aspirations of blacks and whites in the United States. Using college students as the sample and building on previous research in social networks, cultural capital, achievement orientation, and representation, this work seeks to detail a pathway to occupational aspirations relevant to well-educated African Americans in the post Civil Rights era. Structural equation models are employed to provide a statistical comparison of the effect of traditional status attainment models---thought to be insufficient to explain black aspirations---and an elaborated model that includes new variables pertinent to African-Americans. In-depth interviews with students from two highly selective universities are used to supplement the quantitative findings and expose the underlying issues pertaining to African-American occupational aspirations. This research demonstrates the detrimental effects residential and educational segregation have on black aspirations, and finds a negative association between racial separatism in college and the ability to acquire valuable social and cultural capital. Findings also suggest that recent claims that affirmative action is ineffective in producing higher academic and occupational accomplishment among minorities are inaccurate, and that African-Americans are significantly affected by the level of representation within a given field.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017474
Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Perpetuating the occupational achievement gap through the aspirations of African-American and white college students.
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