The Occupational Status of American-Born Chinese Male College Graduates

The occupations of American-born Chinese graduates are determined on the basis of a sample that covers one-third of all in the United States. When compared with their own fathers and brothers, the graduates are shown to have entered more often the professions and other occupations enjoying high status. Sons of fathers in the professions themselves enter the professions. Though one-half the graduates are the sons of businessmen, they themselves rarely carry on in business. They enter business less frequently than do non-Chinese graduates. Three-quarters work outside Chinese communities.