This study was based on theoretical models surmising a linkage between an ethnic group's infrastructures and cultural maintenance. Its purpose was to test these models by examining student values and cultural continuity or student-parent value system correspondence as a function of type of education (TE), language orientation (LO), religious orientation (RO), and socioeconomic status (SES). The instrument used was Rokeach's Value Survey. / One hundred seventy second generation 11th and 12th grade Greek-American students of Astoria, New York, as well as their parents--forming the entire population--constituted the unit of study. The statistics used included ANOVAS on the 36 values and, for examining cultural continuity, Spearman's rho and the t-test. / The results of the analyses indicated: (1A) Mean cultural continuity of the terminal value systems. The students' scores differed significantly as a function of TE but not LO, RO, or SES. (1B) Mean cultural continuity of the instrumental value systems. Of the four variables, only SES made a significant difference in the student scores. (2) Values. Significant differences were found as a function of (a) TE on pleasure, ambitious, and clean, (b) LO on a world at peace, an exciting life, health, mature love, logical, loyal, and obedient, (c) RO on intellectual, (d) SES on self-respect and obedient, and (e) interactions between TE and LO on clean and LO and RO on a sense of accomplishment. / These findings provided partial support for the theoretical model of this study correlating an ethnic group's social structures and its values. However, it is also noted that whereas the study of student values was based on 70.6 percent of the population, cultural continuity was based on only 30.1 percent of the total, and its generalizability is, therefore, limited. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-10, Section: A, page: 2991. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75675 |
| Contributors | CHRISTOPHER, MICHAEL C., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 224 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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