| Description |
x, 238 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Personal Resources -- 3. The Study Design -- 4. Family Resources -- 5. Education and Schooling -- 6. Work and Careers -- 7. Spouses, Children, Friends, and Health -- 8. The Psychology of Unusual Success -- 9. Conclusions and Implications -- App. A. Interview Procedures -- App. B. Interview Schedule |
| Summary |
Joycelyn Elders and Clarence Thomas are examples of the "pathmakers" of this work. While Paths to Success reveals certain consistencies between these pathmakers' approaches and those of their middle-class counterparts, it also exposes striking differences between men and women, blacks and whites. These differences, fully described here, illuminate the ways in which opportunities, serendipities, and impediments intersect with personal resources, strategies, and choices to produce success where we least expect it |
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For more than ten years Charles Harrington and Susan Boardman explored the life histories of successful Americans forty to fifty-five years old - those from poor homes, whose parents had not completed high school, and those from the middle class. Comparing the routes to success of these two groups - the one by various courses of their own construction, the other by a well-laid path - the authors are able to show where their efforts and qualities diverge, and where they coincide |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-230) and index |
| Subject |
Social mobility -- United States.
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Success in business -- United States.
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Success -- United States.
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| Author |
Boardman, Susan K.
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| LC no. |
97008380 |
| ISBN |
0674657942 (alk. paper) |
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