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Context Aspirations and whether role models have an effect on the success and motives of children has been researched by a number of different sociologists and reporters, dating back to the 1970's. In 1976 Sue Sharpe wrote a report on working class girls in London, looking at girls priorities. She found that the girls in London had a set of priorities which were unlikely to be encourage them to attach importance to education. Their main concerns were "love, marriage, husbands, children, jobs, and careers". Showing a low aspiration to succeed in education as career came last. Although in 1990 Sharpe repeated her research and the results differed and had reversed. The girls in London priorities had changed to marriage not being as important, careers had flown to the top of the list as the girls wanted to be able to support themselves. Ferguson in 1983 argued that teenage girls magazines prepared girls...

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