Race, Economic Class, and Job-Seeking Behavior: An Exploratory Study. Illinois Studies of the Economically Disadvantaged, Technical Report Number 15.

Autor/in	Feldman, Jack
Institution	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Psychology.
Titel	Race, Economic Class, and Job-Seeking Behavior: An Exploratory Study. Illinois Studies of the Economically Disadvantaged, Technical Report Number 15.
Quelle	(1972), (99 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Employees; Expectation; Group Norms; Job Application; Job Satisfaction; Prediction; Racial Differences; Research Methodology; Social Differences; Socioeconomic Status; Unemployment; Urban Population; Work Attitudes; Work Environment; Missouri + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Expectancy; Erwartung; Bewerbung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Vorhersage; Rassenunterschied; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Sozialer Unterschied; Socio-economic status; Sozioökonomischer Status; Arbeitslosigkeit; Stadtbevölkerung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Arbeitsmilieu
Abstract	This study sought to test several hypotheses about race and social-class differences in beliefs, values, and social norms related to jobs and job-seeking behavior. A two to four hour interview was conducted by specially trained black and white male interviewers, who interviewed working-class and unemployed men of their own race. All subjects were paid volunteers, recruited from business or social service agencies in the St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. The multi-trait, multimethod validation strategy was employed to evaluate two methods of measuring: (1) the valence (evaluation) of job and job-seeking outcomes and behaviors (previously elicited from similar samples), and (2) the perceived probability of obtaining five direct outcomes of each of five job-seeking behaviors. It was expected that, because of discrimination and lack of work-relevant skills, the black samples (especially the black hardcore unemployed) would see work and the job-seeking environment as essentially unpredictable situations, where effort is not related to reward. This effect was predicted to hold for the white hardcore as well, but to a lesser degree. The white working class was expected to see work and job seeking as highly predictable environments, where effort is strongly related to reward. (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC