TY - JOUR
T1 - Social class, work and the family
T2 - some implications of the father's occupation for familial relationships and sons' career decisions
AU - Mortimer, J. T.
PY - 1976/1/1
Y1 - 1976/1/1
N2 - 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, mediating the transmission of different occupational reward values, depending on the situs, prestige, and functional focus of his work. In more prestigious occupational origin groups, closeness was associated with nonvertical patterns of intergeneration occupational movement. The analysis suggested that the combination of a prestigious paternal role model and a close father son relationship engenders the most occupationally differentiated vocational socialization.
AB - 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, mediating the transmission of different occupational reward values, depending on the situs, prestige, and functional focus of his work. In more prestigious occupational origin groups, closeness was associated with nonvertical patterns of intergeneration occupational movement. The analysis suggested that the combination of a prestigious paternal role model and a close father son relationship engenders the most occupationally differentiated vocational socialization.
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U2 - 10.2307/350384
DO - 10.2307/350384
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0017122581
SN - 0022-2445
VL - 38
SP - 241
EP - 256
JO - Journal of Marriage and Family
JF - Journal of Marriage and Family
IS - 2
ER -