The broad purpose of this paper was to investigate orientations toward military service held by Negro and white teenage boys, utilizing data gathered in rural East Texas during 1966. Negro and white youth were generally positive about military service and lower class youth with high aspirations differed little from other youth in their…

In a study of military orientations of 98 Black high school sophmores in selected nonmetropolitan East Texas counties and iii Black sophmores from a Houston, Texas high school, the following hypotheses were examined: (1) nonmetropolitan Blacks have a more positive orientation toward military service than metropolitan Blacks; (2) lower-class…

The hypotheses to be tested by this study were (1) that Negro youth are more positively oriented toward participation in military service than white youth and (2) that lower class youth with high aspirations are more positively oriented toward military service than other youth. Respondents were male high school sophomores from 3 schools located in…

Identical instruments and procedures were used to collect data on military orientations from 98 Black boys who attended predominantly Black high schools in nonmetropolitan East Texas and 111 Blacks attending an all-Black high school in Houston, Texas, during the spring, 1966. The hypotheses tested were (1) that nonmetropolitan Black boys have more…

The military orientations of rural East Texas black and white high school students interviewed in 1966 were very similar; those of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan youth also did not differ much. Since then, status projections of Texas youth have been extended by adding a sample of Mexican American sophomores (1966) to compare with the East Texas…