The student entering a Canadian school from the West Indies has many pressures to overcome resulting from cultural differences. (SK)

The Stanford Preschool Internal-External Scale (SPIES) was administered to middle class kindergarten children to investigate whether the characteristics of the test would remain stable as it did for the normative sample. (Author/DEP)

A study of variants in the form of stylistically differentiated or full-fledged doublets in contemporary standard Russian. It is concluded that distribution of variants depends upon the speakers' social characteristics. Quantitative differences in the distribution of variants correspond to social differences. Other parameters determine the…

Results from an analysis of the 1973 National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey indicate that (1) there have been sizable changes in the value of self direction since 1969; (2) social class remains the primary determinant of self-direction values; (3) relatively more emphasis should be placed on education in explaining social class…

Argues that the Wrights' conclusions must be viewed with a skeptical eye because: (1) they do not understand the significance of the gap between the thesis they claim to replicate and the data they bring to bear; (2) they ignore some significant analyses; and (3) their methods of analysis, and even their sample, are much less comparable to those…

Argues that their paper is almost entirely programmatic: It attempts to indicate roughly how much we can expect to know about parental values for children once we know all there is to know about their relationship to social class; how much more might be known if similar efforts were expended on other factors; and what lines of inquiry these…

States that the Wrights now explicitly acknowledge that the 1973 National Opinion Research Center (NORC) data confirm all those findings of the original study on which they bear. (Author)

To determine whether cognitive level rather than social class differences influence problem solving strategies, children from two SES levels were matched on cognitive abilities (preoperational, transitional and concrete operational) and administered a partial reinforcement task. (BD)

Describes a study which determined that the photographs of school taken by Black and White adolescents reflected previous findings that socialization causes Blacks to focus on people stimuli while Whites learn to focus on objects. Analysis of the photographs revealed significant race differences in choice of content and found that Black students…

Analyzes effects of social structure changes on Latin American educational systems and investigates the segmentation and problems of the university system and higher education. Suggests innovation can be achieved by building up a new form of economic, social, and cultural organization for which education can pave the way. (TRS)

The author considers the conceptual soundness of self-directed learning and elaborates a definition of the term. The author also raises some questions about the methodological rigor of the studies on which the new academic orthodoxy is based. He considers social settings, learning styles, independence, middle class lifestyles, and methods of…

Describes a study in which 44 undergraduates assigned stereotyping adjectives to middle-class Black, middle-class White, lower-class Black, and lower-class White females. Analysis shows stereotypes differ significantly by race and social class but not by race X class, and all were stereotypically feminine. (SA)

P. Bourdieu provides one of the few coherent accounts of the central role that the schools have in reproducing social and cultural inequalities from one generation to the next, while allowing for human agency. Some writings using Bourdieu's work in their arguments are critiqued. (RM)

Discusses illiteracy in social structural terms, that is, as a predictable consequence of the routine workings of basic institutions in a class-based society. Shows how, in this context, illiteracy can be seen as a "rational" achievement. (CMG)

Describes a study which examined the epidemiology of sex-role attitudes among a national probability sample of 1,626 American adolescents. Reports that more traditional sex-role attitudes are held by male, lower-class, and minority respondents. Assesses the impact of sex-role attitudes on conventional and delinquent behaviors and values.…