The factors found to be related significantly to premarital pregnancy were educational attainment, social status of father, social status of husband, and social mobility. The data suggest the premarital pregnancy has significance for social mobility through the process of mate selection. Premarital conception may result in middle class females…

The aged live in a contracting social world. They rank their reference groups in the order of family, neighbors, and other friends. Friendships are formed primarily between old persons with similar status characteristics. (Author)

Many effects of physical attractiveness can be explained by viewing it as a status characteristic and applying a theory of status characteristics and expectations to it. Tests showed that attractiveness produces predictable differences in expectations and attractiveness characteristics can be modified in combination with additional status…

Describes the use of the newly developed Demographic Advertising Analysis in assessing social positions and their presentations in advertising. Young adults (N=45) rated 12 television commercials and found little difference in prestige of sexual or marital status or occupation. Outwardly religious, political, ethnic, or lower-class representation…

Describes the participation of women in the struggle for the creation of Israel. Holds that Israeli women have failed to achieve political effectiveness because they could come to no common definition of the injustices they suffered and, thus, to no common decision on how to achieve redress through political organization. (GC)

Discusses a study which investigated the effects of violence on socioeconomic changes among Blacks. Finds no effects of racial violence on non-White income, employment, or occupational fluctuations from 1960 to 1970. (Author/GC)

The study compared the peer status of learning disabled (LD) children served in mainstream programs with their nonlearning disabled peers and explored the relationship of teacher preference and social status among children, and the accuracy of self-appraisal of social status among LD and nonlearning disabled students. (Author/PHR)

The paper describes a technique for mapping the social structure of a class to assess some effects of mainstreaming. Sociometric choices mapped through smallest space analysis generate maps that depart radically from traditional target sociograms and provide new bases for assessing social achievement. (PHR)

In this paper, data from the Catholic Americans study is used to test the hypothesis that there is a powerful ethnic factor in intermarriage and thus that considerable intermarriage will lead only to the emergence of new ethnic boundaries enclosing culturally and socially similar nationality groups. (Author/EB)

The material goods referred to by William Brashler in his characterization of the Black middle class serve more as symbols of status than as indicators of economic power. Despite assertions by Brashler, Safire, and others, the fact remains that Blacks are in a relatively powerless position vis-a-vis Whites in the United States. (Author/GC)

Discusses young children's conceptions of status and role based on sociolinguistic analyses of spontaneous role play. Links developmental features of social knowledge to contextual features of children's interactive experiences. (Author/CK)

Results of studying married couples spanning a wide range of income and prestige levels cast doubt upon the generalization that high levels of dollars and prestige earned in the occupational marketplace are readily transformed into reciprocal exchanges of instrumental and expressive rewards and role performances in the marital dyad. (Author/BEF)