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OCCUPATIONAL SELECTION AND INTELLIGENCE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES AND SMALL TOWNS IN MISSOURI.
- Source :
- American Sociological Review; Feb56, Vol. 21 Issue 1, p63-71, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 1956
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Abstract
- This paper analyzes the relationship between intelligence and occupation and, secondly, relates occupation to various aspects of migration. The relationship between occupation and test intelligence has been the subject of considerable investigation. There tends to be a hierarchy of occupational structure which is closely related to test intelligence, whether the classification is based on the subject's parental occupation or on his own occupation. The material for the investigation consists of the Ohio State University Intelligence Test scores for about 5,000 boys and girls who were high school seniors in 116 Missouri communities in 1939-41. There seems to be a distinct tendency for the brighter boys and girls in rural areas and small towns of Missouri, to find their occupational levels in the higher prestige occupations, especially the professional groups, while those who perform more poorly on tests are more likely to become manual worker and farmers with somewhat lower rankings on the prestige scale.
- Subjects :
- VOCATIONAL guidance
INTELLECT
CITIES & towns
RURAL geography
BLUE collar workers
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00031224
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- American Sociological Review
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12800721
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2089342