Social Class and Social Time Perspective

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2553776
AutoresAngela O''Rand, Angela M O''Rand (0000-0001-6609-4861, Florida Atlantic University, autor correspondente), Angela O'Rand, Robert A Ellis (0000-0002-8781-3316), R Ellis (0000-0001-6698-3271)
Ano1974
Volume53
Fascículo1
Páginas53
Data de publicação1974-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Forces (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605
EditoraOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2576837
OpenAlexW4256106865
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas11

The present research introduces and provisionally tests an improved methodological procedure (the Social Time Perspective Scale) for determining class-linked differences in the way persons anticipate the future and orient their behavior to it. Data for this analysis are drawn from a sample of freshmen in college who come largely, but not entirely, from middle-class backgrounds and from a sample of Job Corpsmen who come primarily from lower-class backgrounds. The findings reveal that: (1) lower-class youth in the Job Corps have a more circumscribed notion of future time than youth from the middle class and their outlook on the future is less systematically ordered; (2) upwardly mobile lower-class youth in college have succeeded in incorporating some features of the middle-class pattern of future orientation in their temporal outlook, but residues of their lower-class backgrounds are still present; and (3) in both the lower- and middle-class samples, the length of temporal perspectives is a factor mediating effective role performance

Class (philosophy) · Geography · Life chances · Middle class · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Social class · Social science · Sociology · Upper class · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychology · Social Psychology