tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24926078343328604042024-03-18T21:13:46.804-07:00What does your major say about youAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-47716592277137805582016-12-16T15:11:00.000-08:002016-12-16T15:11:19.858-08:00Research Blog #10<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The increasing cost of college tuition is causing the demands of the job market to significantly influence the aim of higher education. Employers are demanding graduates that specialize in a specific set of skills. As a result, enrollment numbers are plummeting for liberal arts programs that have historically provided college students with a broad range of knowledge. There is a limit to the benefits of this trend towards a specialized education. Individual college students that are specialized to an extreme degree will forgo the opportunity to learn a broad range of useful skills. This paper seeks to establish the drawbacks of an overspecialized education by discussing the educational theories of John Dewey, David Meens, and Adam Smith. Going forward, the aim of higher education seems to be trending towards producing a workforce rather than developing well-rounded members of society.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adam Smith wrote this famous book in 1776, in which he proposed many of his economical theories. One of his most famous theories proposed in the book is his specialization theory. Smith proposed that the division of labor would contribute to exponential economic growth over time. However, Smith did warn that there was a limit to the benefits from specialization. Many of the theories proposed by Adam Smith in this book are still relevant today.</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-35867706406292247302016-12-14T12:40:00.002-08:002016-12-14T12:40:53.323-08:00Research Blog #9 Argument/Counter Argument<span style="font-family: Roboto;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Argument:</b></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-26306780862187255122016-11-29T13:22:00.000-08:002016-11-29T13:23:11.656-08:00Research Blog #8 Case<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #0a0a0a; font-family: "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.1em !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px !important; vertical-align: baseline;">
I have found dozens of cases to support my argument. The website "studenetdebtcrisis.org" has been a very useful resource. Below is an excerpt from one of my main cases from 2016:</div>
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"<i>I went to college because my high school was a college-prep school. What else was there to do after high school? Go to college. That was my option. I was never informed of other options or careers that didn't need a college degree. I wasn't prepared for a community college to offset some of the cost while I made up my mind. So I ended up a music performance major (because I can be anything I want to be!) and a private 4 year college. Thankfully, I wised up and left before graduation; however, I still have 40,000 in student loan debt... one of these loans is over 20,000 on a private loan with a 8.6% interest rate.</i>" </div>
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Gina chose her major based on her passion for music performance and incurred thousands of dollars in debt. This is a common theme among Generation Me college students that are unaware of the financial consequences of their choice of major. Rising tuition costs should cause students to carefully choose their major by measuring their projected earnings against their projected debt.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-37608910024509804542016-11-28T17:06:00.002-08:002016-11-28T17:06:25.005-08:00Research Blog #7 Frame<b>Academic Frame: </b><br />
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My academic frame is based off of the external and internal factors that influence a student's choice of college major. The main external factor being the job market for a certain degree, which can be measured using different methods of analysis. The main internal factor being self-interests or passions.<br />
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While the privatization of higher education continues to increase the cost of college tuition, choosing a practical college major becomes more and more important. In order to prevent themselves from falling victim to student loan debt, Generation Me will need to shake the bad habit of making decisions based solely on personal interest and begin to focus their attention on the external factors when choosing their major. It is important that high schools and universities educate students and allow them to make informed decisions when deciding their future.<br />
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The article, "Balancing Passion and Practicality: The Role of Debt and Major on Students' Financial Outcomes", offers a framework for making informed college major decisions. In my paper, I will use their "debt-to-income" tool as an example of how students should be choosing their major based on the job market. In the article, researchers of higher education in Texas use this tool to measure median income of college degrees against the debt that the average student must accumulate in order to achieve this degree. Using this tool, or a similar method of analysis, could save thousands of college students from falling victim to student loan debt.<br />
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Unfortunately, research shows that today's college students, <i>Generation Me,</i> are more likely to make decisions based on their own self-interest. Both the article, "Generation Me: Influences of A Students' College Major Choice", and the book, "Generation Me: Why Today's young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled - And More Miserable Than Ever", will be useful for explaining how today's college students are making decisions.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-64401564465849197222016-11-28T12:36:00.001-08:002016-11-28T12:36:32.102-08:00Research Blog #6 Visual<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a graphical representation of the results of a survey conducted in 2012 at nine public universities. In the survey, researchers asked roughly 1800 students who influenced two of their biggest decisions: <i>which college to attend</i> and <i>what to major in while attending college. </i>As you can see parental influence was significant in determining which college to attend. When students were asked who influenced their major, the most common answer was, "myself". In my mind, what makes these results so compelling is that "myself" was not actually an option on the survey. Students who answered "Other" were given an open ended section to specify what they meant. Of the nearly 1800 students surveyed, 488 of them answered "Other" and then answered "Myself."<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Summary: </b>This article written by Casey George-Jackson summarizes a study that was conducted in 2010. In the study, George-Jackson surveyed over 1800 undergraduate students in nine large public universities asking them to identify who influenced their college major decisions the most. The article provides the results with data to back up her findings. </span></div>
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<span style="text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 16px;">Author: </b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Casey George-Jackson is an </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8;">Assistant Professor in the </span>Department of Educational Leadership, Evaluation and Organizational Development at the University of Louisville. <span style="background-color: #f8f8f8;">Her research examines factors impacting participation in the STEM fields, including students’ initial choice of major. She also investigates postsecondary financial awareness and readiness, including the impact of differential tuition policies on underrepresented students and their families.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>major difference by class</i> - how class status ( i.e. Freshman) influences a student's choice of major.</span></span></div>
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This article will provide me with important data to build my case. This study shows that parents and a student's own interests play the most important role in deciding a student's college major. The study was done as recently as 2010</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-52431593813738428192016-10-25T11:38:00.000-07:002016-10-25T11:38:02.343-07:00Literature Review #3<span style="color: #bf9000; font-size: large;"><b>College Major Choice</b>: An Analysis of Personal-Environment Fit</span><br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-indent: -40px;">Porter, Stephen R., and Paul D. Umbach. "College Major Choice: An Analysis of Person-Environment Fit." </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -40px; vertical-align: baseline;">Research in Higher Education</i><span style="text-indent: -40px;"> 2006: 429. </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -40px; vertical-align: baseline;">JSTOR Journals</i><span style="text-indent: -40px;">. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="text-indent: -40px;">The article was published in 2006 in the journal, <i>Research in Higher Education</i>. In the article, Stephen Porter and Paul Umbach describe the results of their study. Porter and Umbach surveyed freshman year college students at a selective liberal arts college in order to gain insight into their choice of major. The researchers apply <i>Holland's Theory of Careers</i> to their results in order to explain why students choose particular pathways. Holland developed six models he calls "<i>environments</i>" that people fit into when choosing a career. These models can be used a foundation for developing similar "<i>environments</i>" that college students choose.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Both Paul Umbach and Stephen Porter are professors of Higher Education in the </span>Department of Leadership, Policy and Adult & Higher Education at North Carolina State University<span style="background-color: white;">, where they teach courses in educational statistics. Both men are also principals at </span>Percontor<span style="background-color: white;">, an educational research and consulting firm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Holland's Theory of Careers - </span></span><i>human behavior is
a result of the interaction between individuals and their environments.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Environments -<i> </i></span></span><i>six models developed by Holland that can be translated into a typology
for academic disciplines—realistic, investigative, artistic, social,
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<i><span style="color: #45818e;">"Holland’s theory and the notion of student–environment fit may be a
useful lens through which to study racial and gender differences in student
major choice." (433)</span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;"><i>"Because parents’ income, father’s education and mother’s
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factor .... Social capital and cultural capital, largely represented by parental
influence, have a significant impact on major choice.</i><i>"(434)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This scholarly article is perhaps my most useful resource. I plan to use this study as a foundation for my paper, particularly <i>Holland's Theory of Careers</i>. I hope to create major environments of my own that expand on Porter and Umbach's findings.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-34498797293972774092016-10-25T09:37:00.002-07:002016-10-25T09:41:05.911-07:00Research Blog #5: Working Bibliography<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: 400; text-indent: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"> George-Jackson, C.E. (2012). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; text-indent: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;">Generation Me: Influences of Students’ Choice of Major</span><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: 400; text-indent: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Project STEP-UP. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #333333; font-weight: 400; text-indent: 48px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> Kinsler, J. ( 1 ), and R. ( 2 ) Pavan. "The Specificity Of General Human Capital: Evidence From College Major Choice." </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Journal Of Labor Economics</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> 33.4 (2015): 933-972. </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Scopus®</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kuz’mina, Iu.V. "The Direct And Indirect Effect Of Family Factors On The Choice Of A College Major."</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Russian Education & Society</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 56.12 (2014): 53-68. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Academic Search Premier</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">Porter, Stephen R., and Paul D. Umbach. "College Major Choice: An Analysis of Person-Environment Fit."</span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Research in Higher Education</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"> 2006: 429. </span><span style="font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">JSTOR Journals</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline;">. Web. 24 Oct. 2016. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Shen, F.C. "The Role Of Internalized Stereotyping, Parental Pressure, And Parental Support On Asian Americans' Choice Of College Major." </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal Of Multicultural Counseling And Development</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 43.1 (2015): 58-73. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scopus®</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; text-indent: 36pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Twenge, Jean M. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--and More Miserable than Ever before</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. New York: Free, 2006. Print.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline;">Workman, Jamie L. "Parental Influence On Exploratory Students' College Choice, Major, And Career Decision Making." </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">College Student Journal</span><span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline;"> 49.1 (2015): 23-30. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline;">Academic Search Premier</span><span style="color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline;">. Web. 18 Oct. 2016.</span></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-19984345602806166932016-10-25T09:22:00.001-07:002016-10-25T09:25:32.771-07:00Research Proposal<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 2.4; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working Title:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What Does Your Major Say About You?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The topic that I am proposing research on is the effect that a college student’s background and personality have on their choice of major. I hope to find specific patterns, based on both external and internal factors, of students in certain majors that create </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">major molds</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The paper will mainly focus on more recent generations of college students. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A student’s choice of major is strongly influenced by family characteristics. The article, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Direct and Indirect Effect of Family Factors on the Choice of a College Major, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> discusses research done on Russian college students that shows how much of a student’s choice of major is determined by their family’s economic resources and how much is a result of cultural factors. Research shows that in most cases parents have one of the heaviest impacts on a student decision making. In a more broad sense, certain cultures place a higher value on specific career choices creating a sense of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">major stereotypes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Internally, each individual has a unique set of interests that will have some impact on their choice of major. In her book, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Generation Me,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Jeane M. Twenge explores the personality traits of the younger generation. Twenge argues that this generation is not only confident, tolerant, and open-minded, but also narcissistic and anxious. The “Entitlement Generation” that Twenge is referring to consists of people born in the 1980’s and 1990’s. These self-centered individuals make up typical current college students and recent graduates. My thought is that self-absorbed students are more likely to follow their own internal interests in choosing a major, rather than external forces.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-10754930057409472942016-10-18T12:19:00.006-07:002016-10-18T12:19:46.862-07:00Literature Review # 2<a href="https://books.google.com/books/content?id=1wGZBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE72y_HU2mwFReuJQkwnb8alLyaRPdPQ1JspPJngukmuwz6bWzjJy5O9G8L6lkBtYMV24NO0Q0pWKZIv1AdcZgbEotxx0bD7TsWynr6IU3QN51U-6FcL2ub-G0Z5NnYQrVlHgOw43" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Front Cover" border="0" id="summary-frontcover" src="https://books.google.com/books/content?id=1wGZBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&edge=curl&imgtk=AFLRE72y_HU2mwFReuJQkwnb8alLyaRPdPQ1JspPJngukmuwz6bWzjJy5O9G8L6lkBtYMV24NO0Q0pWKZIv1AdcZgbEotxx0bD7TsWynr6IU3QN51U-6FcL2ub-G0Z5NnYQrVlHgOw43" title="Front Cover" width="128" /></a><span style="color: #e69138; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Generation Me: </b><i>How Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled, -- And More Miserable Than Ever</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">"Generation Me has grown up thinking that it is more important to "do your own thing" than conform to the group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">"GenMe believes that people should follow their dreams and not be held back by societal expectations.."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"> "Work should provide a rich and fulfilling experience as well as make me rich. Of course, this often clashes with reality." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Jean Twenges findings will help me to determine "internal forces" that are affecting today's college students on a broad scale. In other words, how has the shift in "personality" of this generation impacted how students treat college (particularly their studies). I hope to find out how a shift toward selfish individualism has influenced recent trends in major choices. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-1186728624557224262016-10-11T14:31:00.002-07:002016-10-11T14:31:48.765-07:00Lit Review post #1<b>Parental Influence on Exploratory Students' College Choice, Major, and Career Decision Making</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -40px;">WORKMAN, JAMIE L. "Parental Influence On Exploratory Students' College Choice, Major, And Career Decision Making." </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -40px; vertical-align: baseline;">College Student Journal</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -40px;"> 49.1 (2015): 23-30. </span><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-indent: -40px; vertical-align: baseline;">Academic Search Premier</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -40px;">. Web. 11 Oct. 2016.</span></span><br />
<br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />This article was written by Jamie Workman in 2015 and published in the College Student Journal. Workman examined a first year living learning community and incorporated Schlossberg’s transition theory, which discusses transition in terms of <i>four S ’s: situation, self, strategies and support, </i>in the context of freshman college students' transition into college. Workman came to the conclusion that parental influence is a key theme in college students' decision making.<br />
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Jamie Workman is an assistant professor at the University of Northern Iowa. She has a bachelor's in education, a master's degree in student administration, and a Phd. in Higher Education. Workman also worked as a director of residence life at Miami University.<br />
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<b><u>Strategies</u></b> refer to ways in which individuals
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"<i>As mentioned, several of the students saw
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Laura described her family as the:
...most influential people in your life
and they’re the ones that you look up to
and respect their advice. It’s important
that you have those people in your life
to weigh things off of and that they’re
going to give you a nonbiased opinion.</i>"(page 3)<br />
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<i>"Some students feel an obligation to pursue the
career paths of their parents or other family
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Value: This article provides strong evidence that your family background has a significant influence in your major choice.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-45928455794597229722016-10-11T10:39:00.001-07:002016-10-11T10:39:49.719-07:00Initial Academic Research Bib<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. The Direct and Indirect Effect of
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article is described as Research on Russian students shows that the <span data-auto="strong_text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">choice</span> of a <span data-auto="strong_text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">major</span> and career is strongly influenced by family characteristics, and that there are both direct and indirect influences. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. The Specificity of General
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article discusses a study done at several prestigious universities that analyzes how a college students major choice relates to there human capital. A main topic in the article that I found both interesting and useful is their discussion of the question "Does your major determine how hard you will work or does how hard you work determine your major?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link to the article is below:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON EXPLORATORY STUDENTS’
COLLEGE CHOICE, MAJOR, AND CAREER DECISION
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This article explores parental influence on exploratory students' <span data-auto="strong_text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">college</span> <span data-auto="strong_text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">choice</span>, <span data-auto="strong_text" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" xmlns:translation="urn:EBSCO-Translation">major</span>, and career decision making. The research began with examination of a first year academic advising model and Living Learning Community. This article will be an extremely useful resources in determining how a student's background affects their choice of major. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The link to the article is below:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=f8492985-1f40-4dd6-99b1-29d2d4a6f0fc%40sessionmgr106&hid=127">http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=7&sid=f8492985-1f40-4dd6-99b1-29d2d4a6f0fc%40sessionmgr106&hid=127</a></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-67223420268676939412016-10-04T09:55:00.001-07:002016-10-04T09:55:29.377-07:00Scouting the TerritoryIn my research I have found several studies that sociologists and psychologists have done involving college majors. Based on what I have found, I have decided to focus on two main topics for my paper. The first topic is <i>what does your college major say about your background</i> and the second is <i>what does your college major say about your personality</i>. I am pretty confident that I will be able to find sufficient scientific research (statistics as well as specific case studies) to help me. One of the main reasons I chose these two main topics is because the terms "personality" and "background" led me to several articles on Google. Many people seem to have created "<i>major stereotypes</i>" similar to racial stereotypes. <div>
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Here are a couple of articles that grabbed my attention:</div>
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1. How do young people chose a college major:</div>
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<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775701000541">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775701000541</a></div>
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2. Prediction of College Major by Personality Test:</div>
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<a href="http://resolver.ebscohost.com/openurl?sid=google&auinit=ML&aulast=Goldschmid&atitle=PREDICTION+OF+COLLEGE+MAJORS+BY+PERSONALITY+TESTS.&id=doi%3a10.1037%2fh0024748&title=Journal+of+counseling+psychology&volume=14&issue=4&date=1967&spage=302&site=ftf-live">http://resolver.ebscohost.com/openurl?sid=google&auinit=ML&aulast=Goldschmid&atitle=PREDICTION+OF+COLLEGE+MAJORS+BY+PERSONALITY+TESTS.&id=doi%3a10.1037%2fh0024748&title=Journal+of+counseling+psychology&volume=14&issue=4&date=1967&spage=302&site=ftf-live</a></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09499547394362514571noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2492607834332860404.post-87117965983338032332016-09-27T10:57:00.000-07:002016-09-27T11:01:33.441-07:00Topic PostI am interested in what causes someone to choose their major. I am hoping to find research showing that your choice of major is a result of your social class, culture, and college experience, as well as, the state of the economy upon entering college. Are there majors that tend to serve as <i>fall back majors</i>? By this I mean that a large amount of students that graduate with certain degrees actually started in a different field of study. Your major choice is arguably the most important choice you make in college. Not only does it influence your experience at college, but also, strongly influences your experience after college.<br />
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