Questionnaires on eight role-conflict categories were administered to 518 women. A role-conflict hierarchy was established. Level of occupational status was found to be a significant variable in six of the categories. Professional women and housewives tended to give similar responses and to demonstrate the least amount of role conflict. (Author)

Results of an investigation of current attitudes toward occupation groups are presented and compared with similar investigations made during the past 50 years. (Author)

Examines the role of women in the economic and social organization of Irish Tinkers living in Dublin. Focuses on the influence of both age and life cycle events upon authority and power relationships between the sexes. Finds that although Tinker society is clearly male-dominated, women's roles follow a developmental cycle. (Author/GC)

Reviews and rebuts seven common arguments that intelligence (g) is of little or no practical importance in employment. Illustrates in several ways the profound effect that differences in intelligence in a work force may have on the structure and functioning of whole societies. (Author/ABB)

Using a peer nomination sociometric tool, the study measured the degree of social status change with high and low status nonhandicapped elementary grade children who participated in a peer initiation intervention with severely handicapped children. Nonhandicapped students who participated in the peer initiation program gained in social status.…

The study examined the social status of 43 elementary grade learning disabled (LD) students who, though based in special classes, joined regular classes up to 18 periods per week. Findings indicated both lower acceptance and lower rejection, suggesting that the LD students are simply not known to their regular class peers. (Author/DB)

Develops a perspective for studying conversational behavior in geriatric institutions. Considers why conversation is a theoretically significant focus for communications researchers concerned with the aged and presents data from ethnographic studies of two nursing facilities. Data highlight the importance of conversational behavior for…

Third and fourth-grade learning disabled boys were compared to low-achieving third and fourth graders (N=24) matched on sex, race, grade, classroom, and reading achievement. No significant differences were found between these two groups in terms of levels of classroom acceptance, social knowledge, and social behavior as rated by their regular…

Highlights the achievements of the 1985 World Conference for Women. Highlights selected findings from "The State of the World's Women Report 1985," a compendium of questionnaire results from 124 countries and United Nations agencies. Stresses the importance of educational programs that enhance appreciation of the role of women. (DMM)

Reviews the concomitant variables of low social status and points out the teacher's role in setting the organizational structure of the classroom and sustaining the patterns of the interactional dynamics. (JOW)

An artist was identified as either female or male, with a high status, low status, or neutral label. Low and high labels had equally negative effects on subjects' judgment of (supposed) females' paintings and equally positive effects on subjects' judgments of painting (supposedly) by males. (CJM)

Article is a discussion of the relationship between society's stratification system and its educational institutions. (GB)

The present paper reported on a study designed to test two null hypothesis, first, the prediction that there was no difference in attitudes held by heterosexually and homosexually oriented males, second, there would be no difference in attitudes held by covert and overt male homosexuals. (Author/RK)