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Keywords

High school students--Social conditions; Student aspirations; Women college students--Attitudes; Academic theses;

Abstract

The task of the proposed research is to determine the extent parents, educators, law enforcement, and participation in delinquent behavior influence responses of youth toward their hopefulness for the future and likelihood of attending college and whether the relationships differ by gender. Using gender socialization, social capital, and labeling theories as theoretical backgrounds, it is anticipated that contradictory socialization patterns, gendered access to social capital, and labels influence the resources and responses of female juveniles when considering hopefulness for the future and the likelihood of attending college. The proposed study will use secondary data comprised of youth either adjudicated delinquent or accused of delinquency to examine these anticipated results. Analyses of variance, bivariate analysis in the form of zero-order correlations, and multivariate statistics in the form of Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Regressions will be used as the analysis procedures. The anticipated findings have implications for theory, future research, and policy.

Year of Submission

2003

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Department

Department of Sociology

First Advisor

Michael Leiber

Second Advisor

Jerry Stockdale

Third Advisor

B. Keith Crew

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Date Original

2003

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1 PDF file (90 leaves)

Language

en

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