Age Variations in the Formation of Educational and Occupational Career Goals of Brazilian Youth: A Cross-Cultural Test of the Wisconsin Model

IT IS AN ACCEPTED PROPOSITION for industrial and industrializing societies that educational career is an important link between the status of an individual's family of origin and his own occupational career. Blau and Duncan were the first to document convincingly this fact for the United States.2 Much attention has since been given to further explicating the process of status transmission between generations in this country.3 Perhaps the most significant attempt to elaborate how schooling functions as an intervening mechanism is the research tradition of William H. Sewell and his associates at the Univer-