Choice of Holland's social type college majors for U.S. Racial/ethnic groups

Journal of Career Development

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 49-64

  Trusty, Jerry ^a   Ng, Kok Mun ^a   Ray, Dee ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

African americans; Asian americans; College major choice; Hispanic americans; Social college majors; White americans

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034365343     PISSN: 08948453     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/089484530002700104     Document Type: Article

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