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Some Factors in Obtaining Postgraduate Education.
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In this article, the roles of sex, time of marriage, socioeconomic status background, and academic ability in determining who intends and who obtains postgraduate education were examined in a longitudinal study of a sample of undergraduates from a major university.Abstract:
Present trends in American society indicate an increasing need for persons with graduate and professional degrees. This study examines the roles of sex, time of marriage, socioeconomic status background, and academic ability in determining who intends and who obtains postgraduate education. Data were obtained from a longitudinal study of a representative sample of undergraduates from a major university. Men were found to be more likely than women to obtain graduate or professional education. For men, high academic ability was the primary factor in determining who obtained postgraduate education; for women, a late marriage, low socioeconomic status and high ability were about equally associated with obtaining postgraduate education. Both college women and low status college men were relatively unable to anticipate their eventual educational attainments.read more
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Men and Women Graduate Students: Who Succeeds and Why?.
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Some Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Change and Stability of College Students
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College Impact on Marriage
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Women's Place in Higher Education?
TL;DR: The position of women in colleges and universities in the United States has long been a focus for more rhetoric than research as discussed by the authors, and there are widespread demands that universities admit more women students, hire more women professors, and offer Woman Studies courses in which students examine myths and assumptions about the social positions of women.
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The Effects of Upward Mobility: A Study of Working-Status College Students.
TL;DR: This article found that mobile college students undergo anticipatory socialization, while in high school, and that those attending public universities experience sufficient social continuity to become assimilated into upper-middle-status positions without major disruption.