Abstract
This paper explores certain goals and values held by poor youth, and identifies some of the factors that appear to aid or block the goal attainment process. From a sample of 1,327 male adolescents (Caucasian and Negro) between the ages of 16 and 18 who were enrolled in the Job Corps, data were obtained that suggest that these youth aspire to a style of life that resembles that of the middle class. Perceptions and comments of these youth do not tend to support the proposition that the lower class culture has a built‐in set of values that discourage social mobility. Rather it would appear that lower class parents, while having the desire to have their children succeed, lack the abilities important to facilitate movement into more advantageous social positions.
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