At 3:05 PM -0600 2/16/01, Rick Froman wrote:
>My response: This would make sense if the longitudinal data being reported
>here was from 1st year of college to Senior year but I think Jim may have
>been referring to generational longitudinal data showing this change over a
>generation. If reinforcement contingencies are controlling such a change
>that at least says something about changes in society that have brought
>about such different contingencies.
>What has changed about society that
>causes contemporary students to make statements valuing mercenary values
>while earlier generations identified with more intrinsic motivations?
Not the same students.
Now we're talking about 75%+ of the population, compared to maybe 50% a
generation ago and 10% before WWII.
Students are no longer an elite that could afford 'intrinsic motivation'
because they knew that they could always go to work for Daddy or one of his
buddies.
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