大学生の就職企業選択に関する一考察

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This paper is dealing with the following two questions: I. How do college students choose the company to be employed? Which factors determine the students' company choice? 2. How does the college have effects on the students' company choice?
To answer these questions, the data analyzed are from Students Survey on Occupational Aspirations which was done in May 1980, including about 500 senior students from five different colleges.
For the first question, the analytical model is a path model which is often used in the studies on the relationship between social mobility and education. The variables included are fathers' education, fathers' occupation, type of high school, grade in high school, college selectivity, grade in college, occupational norms, company size in terms of number of employees.
As for the second question, the analysis is based on both “the college impact studies” and “the chartering theory” which is developed by American sociologist John Meyer. Meyer argues that the effects of colleges on the students' aspirations, value, etc. arise less from their internal structure and curricula than from their external social settings-the institutionalized definition or charters. In this study, the college selectivity is assumed to be the charter.
Main results are following: I. The students in the more selective college tend to choose the bigger company to be employed. And they are willing to accept the occupational norms relevant to the bigger company. 2. The result of path analysis shows that both college selectivity and occupational norms have the important effect on students' company choice. 3. The higher the college selectivity, the more the college has effects on its students' company choice, that is, students' company choice is less influenced by students' past attributes-fathers' occupation, fathers' education, and the type of high school attended in selective college than less selective college.