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Career Choice among Second‐Generation Korean‐Americans: Reflections of a Cultural Model of Success
Author(s) -
Eun Young Kim
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1993.24.3.05x0969g
Subject(s) - immigration , sociology , gender studies , social psychology , psychology , political science , law
This article examines the pattern of career choice among Korean‐American college students at a prestigious California university and analyzes how that pattern reflects their immigrant parents' cultural model of success and subsequent educational strategies. It describes the influence of the cultural model as a family and community force on Korean‐American students' career choices as well as the costs incurred by that model.