Employment Expectations of Law Students
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2275218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Warkov (University of Chicago, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1965 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 222-232 |
| Publication date | 1965-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1965.tb01658.x |
| OpenAlex | W2055897285 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
RECENT research indicates that occupational differentiation having its roots in religious origins is likely to become increasingly less significant in accounting for allocation of college-trained persons among the arts and science fields. Differences among Protestants and Catholics in the 1961 graduating classes of America's colleges of arts and sciences, for example, were nonexistent insofar as longterm career preferences for the arts and science fields are concerned.1 On the other hand, the profession of law drew heavily as a preferred field for a career from among those graduating seniors who were reared in Catholic and Jewish households.2 The statistical overrepresentation of students of minority religious groups among the graduating seniors who are planning to pursue a career in law notwithstanding, this writer has demonstrated that the process by which entering law students are allocated among American law schools of varying institutional quality is determined primarily by the student's academic record in college and only secondarily by social attributes such as social class position.3 In effect, in sorting out those destined for the top national schools, those entering second tier law schools of solid but not necessarily national reputation, and other law schools, American law schools give primary weight to the student's past achievements. Whether or not these law students will be sorted and sifted once again (primarily on the basis of talent-in this case to be measured by academic rank in their law classes) at the time they
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.02 |
| Citation span | 1967 - 1967 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |