Occupational Prestige Expectations Among Male College Graduates

1968 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 548-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe L. Spaeth
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Male College

Physical Attractiveness and Occupational Prestige among Male College Graduates

1980 ◽  
Vol 47 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1275-1280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Sparacino
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Graduate Degree ◽  
Male College ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Regression Toward The Mean

A set of archival data was used to test the hypothesis that physical attractiveness is positively associated with socioeconomic status among men. Consistent with earlier research, more attractive men earned equivalent grades while undergraduates. They were also no more likely to have subsequently earned a graduate degree or to have held jobs characterized by higher status as indexed by Duncan (1961) prestige scores. Attractiveness itself was stable over the 25 yr. for those initially judged to be intermediate in attractiveness. Those who were initially most and least attractive were judged to have declined and increased, respectively, over the period in question, providing evidence for a regression toward the mean.

The Relationship between College Major Prestige/Status and Post-baccalaureate Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Pitt ◽  
Lin Zhu
Keyword(s):  
College Graduates ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Occupational Prestige ◽  
Advanced Degree ◽  
Subjective Measures ◽  
College Majors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post Baccalaureate ◽  
The Relationship

Since Blau and Duncan’s seminal work on social mobility, researchers have used subjective measures of occupational prestige to understand either the change or stability in generational socioeconomic statuses. While subjective measures of occupational prestige have been developed, the creation of measures of educational status and prestige that might serve as parallels to these measures has received less attention. In this paper, we attempt to create such a measure and then use it to test the relationship between educational status (measured through the status of college majors) and three important post-baccalaureate outcomes: income, educational attainment, and occupational prestige. Our results, based on a survey of 718 undergraduate seniors, shows that majors differ in prestige just as occupations do. Then, using the National Survey of College Graduates, we confirm that those differences are meaningful in predicting early career incomes, the attainment of an advanced degree, and the prestige rating of college graduates’ occupations.

Salaries of Recent Male and Female College Graduates: Educational and Labor Market Effects

ILR Review ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 606-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lois Joy
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Academic Variables ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Market Effects ◽  
Male College ◽  
Market Variables ◽  
Using Data

Why do recent male college graduates earn more than their female counterparts? The author explores this question by estimating several salary regressions using data from the 1993–94 NCES Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study. The results suggest that labor market variables outweighed academic variables in their contribution to the gender salary gap. Of the academic variables, gender differences in total credits accounted for more of the salary gap than did gender differences in majors, grades, or institution attended. Of the labor market variables, gender differences in job sector, industry, and hours worked had the largest effect on gender differences in salaries. Differences in how men and women searched for and selected first jobs appear to have had little impact on gender differences in salary. Most important, as much as 75% of the wage gap remains unexplained by both the academic and labor market variables.

The Perception of Societal Models of Power Distribution by Recent Male College Graduates

1976 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 361-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Stanley Eitzen ◽  
Curtis J. Cole ◽  
Linda Baer ◽  
Charles Duprey ◽  
Norman J. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Power Distribution ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Male College

Psychology of Scientist: XXXIV. MMPI Characteristics of Physical and Social Science Students: Replication and Reanalysis

1976 ◽  
Vol 39 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1067-1071 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kokosh
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
College Graduates ◽  
Original Study ◽  
Science Students ◽  
Achievement Data ◽  
Psychopathic Deviate ◽  
Male College ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Social Introversion ◽  
Psychopathic Deviate Scale

In the original study, using freshmen data, 291 male college graduates in physics, zoology, sociology, and history were used to test four hypotheses derived from other MMPI studies of science students. Only one of the four hypotheses was supported: physics and zoology students were higher on Social Introversion than sociology and history students. For this replication, a second sample of 326 male graduates was obtained in the same majors and the data were reanalyzed to compare the four majors and the two time periods on each dependent variable. This time two of the four hypotheses were supported: the physics and zoology majors are higher on Social Introversion ( p < .001) and lower on Psychopathic deviate scale ( p < .001) than the sociology and history majors. Also, the physics and zoology majors are considerably higher on aptitude and achievement data than the sociology and history majors. The findings with the MMPI have small but favorable implications for the Roe and the Holland theories of career development.

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