The ambitious generation : America's teenagers, motivated but directionless

By Barbara Schneider, D. L. Stevenson. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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The Immigrant Advantage in Adolescent Educational Expectations (2016, result): “Our findings lend credence to the claim that, in the United States, children are exposed to a “college-for-all” ethos (Rosenbaum 2001), making them highly ambitious (Schneider and Stevenson 1999).”
Socioeconomic Adversity, Educational Resilience, and Subsequent Levels of Adult Adaptation (2004, background): “Teenage aspirations in particular have shown to influence educational attainment and are a vital predictor of adult occupational status (Clausen, 1993; Elder, 1968, 1999; Schneider & Stevenson, 1999; Schoon & Parsons, 2002).”
Generation Y and career choice: The impact of retail career perceptions, expectations and entitlement perceptions (2009, background): “During college, many students are employed in part-time retail jobs that provide minimal supervision, leaving them without role models to provide direction and to promote the development of positive and valuable work traits and habits (Schneider and Stevenson, 1999).”
Teenage career aspirations and adult career attainment: The role of gender, social background and general cognitive ability (2011, background): “Moreover, in the light of generally raised ambitions among young people in recent age cohorts, there are concerns regarding non-aligned ambitions, i.e., high career expectations despite low educational attainment (Schneider & Stevenson, 1999).”
Early Occupational Aspirations and Fractured Transitions: A Study of Entry into ‘NEET’ Status in the UK (2010, methodology): “In this study, we use longitudinal data from the British Youth Cohort Study (BCS70) to examine whether young people who hold uncertain occupational aspirations, or aspirations that exceed likely educational attainment at age 16 (Schneider and Stevenson, 1999), are more likely to be NEET than those w”
Career transitions in times of social change. His and her story (2007, background): “The formulation of life plans during adolescence can help to direct and guide the transition from the present to the future, and are signiWcant predictors of consequent educational and occupational attainment (Clausen, 1991; Elder, 1974/1999; Schneider & Stevenson, 1999).”
Limitations of human capital theory* (2019, background): “(Roksa and Levey 2010, 391) Schneider and Stevenson (1999, 79–85) find that only 44% of students had ‘aligned’ educational ambitions, meaning that they planned to complete the amount of education required by their intended occupations (Arum and Roksa 2014a, 34).”
Social Stratification in Higher Education (2009, background): “Data suggest that students’ postsecondary educational expectations have increased substantially over time (Morgan, 1998; Schneider & Stevenson, 1999), to the point where they are only weakly associated with their educational and occupational outcomes (Goyette, 2008; Reynolds, Stewart, MacDonald, &…”
Pathways to Occupational Attainment Among Poor Youth of Color (2009, methodology): “The somewhat inflated expected pay and enjoyment vocational expectations indicators may reflect youths’ overly optimistic perceptions of their future occupations (Schneider & Stevenson, 1999) or socially desirable responses.”
Understanding the Relationship Between Information About College Prices and Financial Aid and Students’ College-Related Behaviors (2006, background): “When the availability of college-related guidance from school counselors and teachers is limited, families and peers become relatively more important sources of knowledge and understanding about college (Schneider & Stevenson, 1999).”