Social Class, Work and the Family: Some Implications of the Father's Occupation for Familial Relationships and Sons' Career Decisions.

Mortimer, Jeylan T.

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ERIC Number: EJ142559

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1976

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Social Class, Work and the Family: Some Implications of the Father's Occupation for Familial Relationships and Sons' Career Decisions

Mortimer, Jeylan T.

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 38, 2, 241-254, May 76

The effects of both vertical and nonvertical dimensions of fathers' work on family relations and vocational socialization are explored through a multivariate analysis of data from several hundred male participants in the 1962-1967 Michigan Student Study. Closeness to father emerged as an important, structurally-related intervening variable. (Author)

Descriptors: Career Choice, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Relationship, Fathers, Research Projects, Social Class, Socialization, Surveys

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