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Title: Educational and Military Experience of Young Men During the Vietnam Era: Non-Linear Effects of Parental Social Class
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Useem, Michael |
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Educational and Military Experience of Young Men During the Vietnam Era: Non-Linear Effects of Parental Social Class Journal of Political and Military Sociology 8 (Spring 1980): 15-29 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University Keyword(s): Assets; College Education; College Enrollment; Military Service; Parental Influences; Schooling; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Vietnam War Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Parental social class is known to have a positive impact on the quality of many experiences of a son or daughter, and studies employing this variable often assume that the impact is linear. This paper argues, however, that failure to consider possible non-linear effects of parental socioeconomic status (SES) on offspring experience can significantly distort interpretation of the impact of social origins. Drawing on data from a nationally representative longitudinal study of 1,922 young men during the 1967-1970 period, the author examines the form of the relationship between parental SES and two important areas of their sons' experience-continuation of schooling and service in the armed forces during a three year period after the young men reached their eighteenth birthday. Educational and military experience are found to be better predicted as a second degree function of parental SES than as a linear function of parental SES. The evidence also indicates that the curvilinear relationship between linear relationship and military experience is partly the product of the non-linear relationship between social origins and education experience, suggesting that if non-linear effects of social origins and education experience in one institution are overlooked, the sons' experience in another institution may not be fully interpretable. Finally, a linear assumption is found to systematically underestimate the actual degree of inequality in the distribution of access to education. |
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Useem, Michael. "Educational and Military Experience of Young Men During the Vietnam Era: Non-Linear Effects of Parental Social Class." Journal of Political and Military Sociology 8 (Spring 1980): 15-29.
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