Results of using high status peers to tutor socially unpopular peers indicated signficant increases in daily accuracy rates of tutored subjects, slight positive improvements in the sociometric standing of low status peers; immediate increase in the number of positive social contacts, and decreased frequency of negative social interactions between…

Results indicated that, on the whole, social interactions among behaviorally disordered elementary Ss were both positive and reciprocial in nature. In addition, no discernible differences were noted between the target-initiated social behavior of high- and low-status students. Specific differences were found in peer social behavior directed toward…

Although rated similarly by peers and teachers on cognition and behavior, resulting social status for some children was quite different, ranging from acceptance to rejection. Also, within a subset of profiles characterized by social acceptance (or toleration or rejection), great variability in patterns of cognitive and behavioral characteristics…

The study concludes that for the sample used, Social Status when indexed by family income appears to be relaxed to the use of birth control by college girls. (Author)

Critique of Richard Herrnstein's thesis that American society is drifting toward a stable hereditary meritocracy, with social stratification by inborn differences and a corresponding distribution of rewards''. (RJ)

Hypothesizing that signature size is related to status, signatures of undergraduates, blue collar workers, and professors were compared and found to be ranked in the above order. Further, case studies of professors revealed a 50 percent increase in size of signature from several months prior to attainment of the Ph. D. to four years afterward. (DB)

Analyzes the development of the exploitation of youth (by the system") and explores the nature of the social forms to which this exploitation gives rise." (Author)

A study of Connecticut high school students from different social positions found differences in consumer attitudes and understandings of money management, credit, insurance, and savings and investments. (CH)

Discusses the work of school personnel and how it contributes to the organization and distribution of social status. Research on schools as people-processing organizations which describe how individuals are sorted into standardized educational classifications such as age grade status is reviewed. (AM)

Investigates relationships between social status, social interaction, and knowledge of social relationships in preschool children. Forty-seven middle-class preschoolers were assessed on a sociometric test of popularity, an observational measure of social participation, a measure of referential communication, and an emotion-attribution task.…

Discusses a study examining the relationship between geographic mobility, kinship ties and social status for a sample of Mexican immigrants who were interviewed upon entry to the United States and reinterviewed three years later. Attempts to determine whether and how maintenance of kinship ties influences the integration of immigrants. (Author/MK)

Discusses the tenuous status of illegal immigrants in the United States, emphasizing the implications of the presence of a large class of people so alienated from the social system. Holds that undocumented immigrants should be permitted to become productive members of society. (Author/GC)

At the elementary school level, both boys and girls prefer to excel academically rather than in sports, and a comparison of opinions concerning athletes, students, and student-athletes showed that boys consider athletes as slightly more popular, while girls considered student-athletes to be more popular. (MB)