CAREER CHOICE AMONG 2ND-GENERATION KOREAN-AMERICANS - REFLECTIONS OF A CULTURAL MODEL OF SUCCESS

Authors
KIM EY
Citation
Ey. Kim, CAREER CHOICE AMONG 2ND-GENERATION KOREAN-AMERICANS - REFLECTIONS OF A CULTURAL MODEL OF SUCCESS, Anthropology & education quarterly, 24(3), 1993, pp. 224-248
Citations number
45
Categorie Soggetti
Education & Educational Research",Anthropology
Journal title
Anthropology & education quarterly → ACNP
ISSN journal
01617761
Volume
24
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Pages
224 - 248
Database
ISI
SICI code
0161-7761(1993)24:3<224:CCA2K->2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
This article examines the pattern of career choice among Korean-Americ an college students at a prestigious California university and analyze s how that pattern reflects their immigrant parents' cultural model of success and subsequent educational strategies. It describes the influ ence of the cultural model as a family and community force on Korean-A merican students' career choices as well as the costs incurred by that model.