What Are The Theories Of Drop Out Of School

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The purpose of this literature review is to investigate drop out and delinquency relationship and the deviant behaviors. In the literature it’s explain some drop out of school because they are having academic difficulties or do not like school may think of themselves and their future in different terms than those who have to leave school to get a job or because of pressing family obligations. Some youths drop out of school and assume new conventional roles and identities like worker or parent, whereas others leave school but fail to assume another positive role. These different self-assessments or social identities may, in turn, have different implications for their behavior after leaving school. The theoretical explanations that will be reviewed …show more content…

Based on this theory, the effects of dropping out depends on how an individual values education, the reason for his or her dropping out of school, and how one values their post-school situation. Due to the complexity of the theory that demands measurement of individual vocational, educational and relational goals and stimuli. It’s difficult to test, and does not provide fulfilling predictions of the association between dropout and …show more content…

The son’s education affects his first job, which finally has an effect on his eventual occupational attainment (Blau & Duncan, 1967). Subsequent studies in the status attainment tradition confirm the importance of educational attainment for occupational status attainment (Sewell et al., 1970; Sewell et al., 1980; Warren et al., 2002; Kerckhoff, 1993). Although most the studies in this tradition didn’t factor in dropouts from their reports, the rational would indicate that those who fail to complete high school experience lower occupational attainment, unemployment, and develop poor parenting skills, thereby increasing the probability of criminal involvement for both themselves and their

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