The perception of occupational structure—an intervening variable in vocational behavior

Work Values of College Bound and Other High School Students

“…In the first (Reeb, 1971), with English high school students, he found the same two dimensions for students from schools in a working class area and students from schools in a middle class suburb. In the second study (Reeb, 1974), with Israeli eighth grade students, he found that the similarity judgments were highly correlated for students in school from upper-middle class, middle class, and working class areas. All of this research is between two and four decades old, and only one was carried out in the United States.…”

“…She found that students with higher socioeconomic status distinguished between different kinds of business and professional occupations while students with lower socioeconomic status perceived these jobs as similar. Reeb (1971Reeb ( , 1974 did two multidimensional scaling studies of similarity judgments. In the first (Reeb, 1971), with English high school students, he found the same two dimensions for students from schools in a working class area and students from schools in a middle class suburb.…”

Multidimensional Scaling: A Possible Technique for Examining Male and Female Occupational Perceptions and Preferences

“…To date several investigations have used MDS techniques in the study of occupational perceptions (for example, Coxon & Jones, 1974a;Reeb 1971Reeb , 1974Siess & Rogers, 1974;Shubsachs & Davison, 1979). Reeb (1971Reeb ( ,1974 demonstrated that 14 year-old boys can perform the required occupational rating task with 'naturalness and ease7 (Reeb, 1974, p. 134) with well known occupations and with instructions to judge occupational 'suitability' (Reeb, 1974, p. 128) rather than 'similarity'.…”

“…Reeb (1971Reeb ( ,1974 demonstrated that 14 year-old boys can perform the required occupational rating task with 'naturalness and ease7 (Reeb, 1974, p. 134) with well known occupations and with instructions to judge occupational 'suitability' (Reeb, 1974, p. 128) rather than 'similarity'. Shubsachs and Davison (1979) and Reeb (1974) have demanstrated a close similarity in the structure of occupational perceptions between different groups of people under certain conditions--e.g., similarity of occupational history (see also Coxon & Jones, 1974a). The finding of similarity in the perception of occupational structure is supported by the work of Siess and Rogers (19741, who note only minor differences in the occupational perceptions of male and female college students.…”

“…The finding of similarity in the perception of occupational structure is supported by the work of Siess and Rogers (19741, who note only minor differences in the occupational perceptions of male and female college students. Reeb (1971Reeb ( , 1974 has demonstrated that both British and Israeli 14 year-old boys' rankings of their job preferences can be fitted to their perceived structures of occupations.…”