This study challenges the perception of community colleges as the "workingman's college". Through the process Zwerling describes as diversion it is assumed that upper class students will either elect or be forced to enter the higher educational system at the two-year college level. As a result, two-year colleges will become more heterogeneous in character. / This study hypothesizes that two-year colleges, are stratified by race, gender, and socio-economic status; that within two-year college types there is student diversity; and that using a modified status attainment model, expectation model, differences in educational and occupational expectations vary by race, gender, region, and socio-economic status. / Utilizing an American Council of Education national sample of 22,510 first-time full-time two-year college students analyses are accomplished employing a combination of nonparametric chi-square test of significance and multiple regression techniques. / The findings of this study reveals that through the process of "diversion" institutional stratification as well as diversity exist within two-year college types. This study also finds that the diversion process when applied to a modified status attainment model (educational and occupational exception models) results in educational expectation models that are more applicable to more student subpopulations than occupational expectation models; that socio-economic status in the expectation models does not take on the importance it does in the status models; and that in the expectation models students are seeking to actualize certain educational expectations independent of occupational expectations or social class. / The results of this study raise many questions concerning the popular perceptions of two-year college students. Specifically the question is raised whether class based models of educational and occupational attainment are viable in a pluralistic society. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-10, Section: A, page: 3426. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74941 |
| Contributors | ABRAHAM, ANSLEY ALLYN, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 238 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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