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Eisikovits, Zvi – Child and Youth Services, 1985
Describes and analyzes changes in career patterns of residential child care workers in Israel during the last 50 years. Argues that present low status of child care work in Israel is related to: (1) changing social mandate of residential care and changing kinds of clients in system: and (2) lack of fit between existing needs and models of…
Descriptors: Careers, Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Foreign Countries
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Wynn, Cordell – Clearing House, 1973
Article describes a model that serves to enhance the role teachers can play in their attempts to gain greater status, salary increases, and job satisfaction. (RK)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Differentiated Staffs, Educational Innovation, Models
Hussain, Ch. Ghulam – Literacy Work, 1973
The desire to learn among adults in Pakistan is there, but it needs to be stimulated. How this can be achieved is the subject of this article. (Author)
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Economic Progress, Instructional Materials, Learning Motivation
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Rosaldo, Michelle – Language in Society, 1973
Discusses speech styles and social structures in Ilongot discourse. (DD)
Descriptors: Body Language, Cultural Influences, Idioms, Language Styles
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Korpi, Walter – American Journal of Sociology, 1972
The relationship between class and voting has been described using concepts such as class voting, political distinctiveness of classes, class distinctiveness of parties, and class solidarity. A model is developed to analyze under what conditions the index of class voting is affected by different ways of classifying occupational groups. (Author/JB)
Descriptors: Lower Class, Measurement Techniques, Political Socialization, Predictive Measurement
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Heiss, Jerold; Owens, Susan – American Journal of Sociology, 1972
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Self Concept, Self Concept Measures, Self Esteem
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Busse, Thomas V.; Busse, Pauline – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1972
Research measured accepted dimensions of child-rearing behavior by means of observations of both Negro mothers and fathers teaching their fifth grade sons. (Authors)
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Background, Grade 5, Occupations
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Kennedy, James G. – College English, 1972
Discusses the class character and world view of Native Son'' and comments on the plot and subplot of the novel. Comment by Annette Conn. (RB)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Content Analysis, Literary Criticism, Literary Devices
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Phillips, Derek L.; Clancy, Kevin J. – American Journal of Sociology, 1972
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Individual Needs, Role Perception, Self Concept
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Morison, J. D. – Paedagogica Historica, 1969
This article emphasizes that any general explanation of the Russian revolution of 1917 cannot afford to ignore the history of education inside the country during the preceding century. (MF)
Descriptors: Activism, Civil Liberties, Educational Administration, Educational History
Zaccaria, Lucy; Creaser, James – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1971
The finding of intellectual differences among the subgroups examined demonstrates the importance of scholastic records in studies of attrition. Also, students persisting to graduation have somewhat different personal needs from students of similar ability who choose to withdraw. (Author/CG)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Attendance Patterns, College Attendance, Dropout Attitudes
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Schlesinger, Benjamin – Family Coordinator, 1971
A report containing 167 recommendations pertaining to the position of women in Canada was released by the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in late 1970. Some of the highlights of the report are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Abortions, Employed Women, Females, Feminism
Newman, Ian M. – J Sch Health, 1970
Results of participant observation study of eighty students indicates that smoking plays important role in determining school social status. Lack of such realization by establishment, and call for non smoking ideal student model who often is actually a smoker, create contradiction in moral organization of school, recognizable only to other…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitudes, Group Structure, Junior High School Students
Reissman, Leonard; Halstead, Michael N. – Sociol Soc Res, 1970
Descriptors: Black Community, Disadvantaged, Political Influences, Research Problems
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Staples, Robert – Western Journal of Black Studies, 1983
Examines attitudes toward Blacks in South Pacific countries and describes the author's own experiences with Australian Aborigines. Discusses adverse situations, low status, and racial discrimination experienced by Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori, and American Blacks as members of the Fourth World (minority groups living in developed…
Descriptors: Blacks, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship
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