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1. Aspirations of Chicano Youth from the Texas Border Region: A Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Comparison.

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Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station., ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools, Las Cruces, NM., Kuvlesky, William P., and Venegas, Moises

Abstract

The document tested the level of generalization of a recent conclusion from past research (see ED075156) on nonmetropolitan (NM) south and southwest Texas Mexican American teenagers: that these youths have predominantly high and strong status aspirations and expectations. Earlier findings on NM Mexican American youth supported Merton's thesis that all types of youth have high aspirations for upward social mobility. This questioned much of the speculative assertion that Mexican Americans suffered impediments to social mobility due to low achievement aspirations derived from the patterns of values and beliefs linked to their subculture. Data were gathered from 2 separate studies of Texas Mexican American youth completed in the past 6 years: a 1967 study of NM youth in south Texas (Kuvlesky, Wright, and Juarez, 1971) and a study of El Paso youth (Venegas, 1973). Differences between NM and metropolitan (M) respondents were found to be statistically significant for both boys and girls relative to specific educational and occupational status projections types for both aspirations and expectations. In addition, statistically significant differences existed between the 2 samples of Mexican American youth in reference to intensity of education aspiration and certainty of attainment of expected occupational attainment. Statistical data is presented in 12 tables. (KM)

Published
1974

2. Do Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Chicano Youth Differ: A Study of South Texas Teen-Agers - 1973.

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Texas A and M Univ., College Station. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station., Venegas, Moises, and Kuvlesky, William

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Based on comparative data from two 1973 studies, this study examined whether or not the occupational and educational status projections and language usage patterns of Mexican American teenagers living in a large metropolitan area differed from those of teenagers living in isolated, relatively small nonmetropolitan places. The two separate, but similar, studies were conducted in South Texas with nonmetropolitan youth (ST-73) and in El Paso with metropolitan youth (EP-73) using identical questionnaires. The ST-73 study obtained data from 379 Mexican American sophomores in 5 high schools located in Dimmit, Starr, and Zapata Counties. The EP-73 study obtained data from 300 Chicano sophomores and seniors in 12 schools in the El Paso-Ysleta school districts. These studies analyzed the respondent's aspiration and expectation levels, aspiration intensity, expectation certainty, speaking patterns (with parents at home and with close friends in the neighborhood, school, outside of class), and use of mass media. Some findings were: metropolitan Chicano youth had slightly higher educational and occupational aspirations; South Texas girls were the least certain of their occupational expectations; metropolitan boys used Spanish less and English more with parents; and nonmetropolitan males more frequently maintained a strong desire for their educational aspirations. (NQ)

Published
1975

3. Educational and Occupational Aspirations and Expectations of El Paso High School Students.

Author

Venegas, Moises

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to make a comprehensive survey of the educational and occupational aspirations and expectations of high school sophomores and seniors in the El Paso and Ysleta school districts (El Paso, Texas). Group-administered questionnaires were used to obtain the information from the 590 randomly sampled students (5% of the total population of high school sophomores and seniors). Hypotheses were formulated to determine differences in educational and occupational aspirations and expectations based on ethnicity (Mexican American and Anglo American), sex, grade level, and type of school program. Responses were analyzed using chi-square and analysis of variance. Findings concluded that students in all groups had high aspirations and expectations for education and occupation. A statistically significant difference was found between Anglo Americans and Mexican Americans and between males and females. Generally, Anglo Americans had higher aspiration and expectation levels, as did males compared to females. A significant difference was also noted among the 3 school programs, i.e., the academic group was generally higher than the general and vocational samples. (Author/HBC)

Published
1973

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