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Overview of Ethnic Differences:

The results of chi-square evaluations on the 20 ethnic comparisons involved in our analysis indicate that only five did not result in differences having statistical significance at the .05 level of probability. Consequently, it is obvious that differences generally existed among the three ethnic groups being considered. Of course, this does not mean that the differences observed were meaningful or significant in a sociological sense. Quite to the contrary, our judgments indicate that differences among the three ethnic groupings were substantial in only 6 of the 20 comparative evaluations made. In all other cases, it was judged that the similarity of the ethnic groups was more significant than the variations existing among them.

Ethnic Differences

It is significant that five of the six comparisons judged to demonstrate marked ethnic differences occur in reference to only two elements of status projections: three involve level of expectation and two involve intensity of occupational aspiration. The remaining comparison demonstrating substantial ethnic variation was the certainty of occupational expectation demonstrated by females.



As can be seen from our shorthand description of the nature of differences observed the comparisons demonstrating marked ethnic differences were definitely patterned. In reference to expectations, Negroes had substantially higher level expectations than the other two groups in all three cases demonstrating marked differences. In reference to intensity of occupational aspiration, both for males and females, the marked variation is due largely to the fact that Mexican American youth maintained a much stronger intensity of desire for their goals than the other two groupings.

In summary, the overview demonstrates that the three ethnic groups were generally similar in reference to aspiration levels, anticipatory deflection, certainty of expectation, and intensity of educational aspiration. On the other hand, substantial ethnic differences tended to occur in reference to level of expectation and for intensity of desire for occupational goals. These differences were due largely to Negroes maintaining higher expectation levels and Mexican Americans having a stronger intensity of desire for job goals. Females accounted for most of the marked ethnic variability.

Next, ethnic differences observed in reference to each of the five status projection elements under consideration will be examined. Because of the number of detailed tabular presentations involved in our original analysis, the remainder of this section will consist of rather brief summaries of major findings.

Aspiration Levels: The occupational and educational aspirations of all three ethnic groups were generally high: a majority of all six ethnic-sex groupings held high occupational and educational goals, with the exception of Anglo females in reference to education. Generally, small proportions of any of the ethnic-sex groupings held low-level job or educational goals. However, a substantial number (25 percent) of the Negro males held low occupational goals and in this respect differed from all other groupings. Also, Mexican American boys and girls more frequently held low educational goals than the other ethnic groups: about one-fifth of the Mexican American youth maintained low-level educational goals.

Expectation Levels: A comparison of the proportion of ethnic types having high goals and high expectations clearly indicates that the respondents maintained high expectations markedly less than high aspirations.

Negroes appeared to differ markedly from the other two ethnic types in their expectations, particularly in reference to education. Markedly more Negroes (a near majority in most cases) held high-level expectations. In reference to proportions expecting low-level attainment, markedly more of all groups were classified in the low-status level as compared with what was observed in reference to aspirations. About 30 per cent of the Negro males and Anglo females anticipated low-level occupational attainments. About the same proportion of Mexican American boys and girls anticipated low-level educational attainment and, in this respect, were clearly different from the others.

Anticipatory Goal Deflection: The concept anticipatory goal deflection represents the difference observed, if any, between the individual's desired and anticipated status attainments. Our findings indicate that most youth, regardless of ethnicity, did not experience anticipatory deflection from their occupational and educational goals. Another similarity observed was that when anticipatory goal deflection did occur, it was predominantly negative. Oddly, Anglo females experienced both the highest rate of anticipatory goal deflection (41 percent deflected from occupational goals) and the lowest (23 percent were deflected from educational goals).

Although the similarity of the ethnic groupings, relative to anticipatory deflection, appears to be of more importance than differences, three patterns of ethnic differences were observed: (1) Anglos generally experienced less anticipatory goal deflection than the other two ethnic groups; (2) Negroes tended to experience significantly more positive goal deflection; (3) Mexican American youth generally demonstrated more negative deflection.

Intensity of Aspiration: The three ethnic groupings differed very little in reference to the strength of desire they indicated for their educational goals: a very large majority of all groupings had strong attachments to their desired education. Nevertheless, the little variation that existed supported the rather dramatic ethnic difference observed relative to intensity of desire for job goals. The Mexican American youth indicated a markedly stronger desire for their occupational goals and a somewhat stronger desire for their educational goals than the other two ethnic groupings. In addition, Negro males stood out among all six ethnic-sex groupings for a lack of strong attachment to their occupational goals.

A similarity cutting across all ethnic-sex groupings was the fact that the respondents maintained a much stronger attachment to educational goals than to occupational goals. This might be explained by the fact that these youth perceived educational attainment as a prerequisite means to the more distant (in time) job goals they held.

Certainty of Expectation: The Negro and Anglo youth were very similar in proportions feeling certain about their expectations: about half of both groups held high levels of certainty for their occupational goals, and about two-thirds of each group maintained similar orientations toward their educational anticipations.

In every case, Mexican American boys and girls were less certain about attaining their occupational and educational expectations than the other two ethnic groupings: only about one-third of Mexican American youth felt certain about attaining the occupational attainment they specified, and approximately half felt certain toward attainment of their educational expectations.

For every ethnic-sex grouping, there was a greater degree of certainty toward educational expectations than there was toward occupational expectations. Also, it is important to note that although most of the ethnic-sex groupings maintained strong intensities of aspiration in reference to both occupation and education, markedly fewer felt certain about attaining their expected jobs and educational levels, even though status levels indicated for expectation were generally lower than those indicated for goals.
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