THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LATE ENTRANCE TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOM AND THE SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF THE TRANSFER CHILD AND OTHER MEMBERS WITHIN THE CLASSROOM STRUCTURE WAS INVESTIGATED. FOUR ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM OF LATE SCHOOL ENTRANCE WERE EXAMINED. NOTED EFFECTS WERE ON--(1) THE TOTAL SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE CLASSROOM, (2) THE…

AN ATTEMPT IS MADE TO RELATE THE PROBLEM OF THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT TO HIS EARLY SCHOOL EXPERIENCES. ALTHOUGH NO DATA ARE AVAILABLE AT PRESENT TO SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT THE PRESCHOOL PROGRAM COULD REDUCE THE INCIDENCE OF LATER DROPOUT, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE PROBLEM OF THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON THE TRANSITION BETWEEN PRESCHOOL…

As part of a project to develop formative evaluation systems for use in improving learning disabilities (LD) service programs in social adjustment, two studies were conducted to identify simple and efficient measures of children's social adjustment and to determine their relationship to other measures of a student's classroom social status.…

ONE OF A SERIES INTENDED TO SERVE AS A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF THE LITERATURE FROM DIVERSE PUBLICATIONS, DISCIPLINES, AND AGENCIES, ON THE STATUS PROJECTIONS (ASPIRATIONS AND EXPECTATIONS) OF YOUTH, THIS REPORT LISTS 621 CITATIONS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR UNDER JOURNAL ARTICLES, BULLETINS, REPORTS, AND UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL. PUBLICATION…

Jargon grows and communication is retarded when a learned vocabulary becomes more important for its social than its communicative functions. Teachers often severely correct the culturally deprived speaker of nonstandard English, whereas their first concern should be what is communicated, not how it is communicated. We are, after all, teaching…

Properly manipulated residuals resulting from "status predicting status" regressions constitute a precise and unique measurement of status inconsistency without the definitional and methodological problems and limitations of simple and simultaneous cross-classification techniques associated with the typical "dummy variable regression" approach.…

Drawing upon role theory, aging is defined as the patterned flow of individuals through a series of positions, roles, role sets, and position sets. From this perspective, the aging process is one of continual adaptation to transitions in social positions and associated role relationships. Data on the retirement transition are used to test and give…

Behavioral differences between school superintendents who achieve their positions through promotion in the home district (place bound) and those who achieve their positions through movement from one school system to another (career bound) were analyzed by means of interviews with 61 superintendents in one county. The study examined the rate of…

This study examines the development of communication and social inference in terms of the child's immediate social environment, the child's role systems, and the standards of interpersonal relationships. Middle-class mothers and fathers of first, third, and fifth graders were asked what they say to their children in several common situations in…

This paper examines the model of the family which permeates stratification literature, introduces a modified way of conceptualzing the family which takes into account its changing nature and subjects the reformulation to a limited empirical test. The data used to test this reformulation were drawn from a longitudinal research project on 779…

This study traces the syntactic interference of the dialect of 176 black children (grades 1-6) living in south-central Los Angeles when they attempt to speak standard English in the school and correlates the amount of interference with certain socioeconomic variables. Syntactical interference items investigated include verb agreement, tense,…

This essay explores many of the theoretical and practical issues involved in the establishment and operation of interdisciplinary educational programs in child development. The discussion does not offer categorical answers, but raises provocative, complex questions about the qualitative and quantitative aspects of interdisciplinary educational…

To determine junior college community service personnels' perception of the Cooperative Extension Service, a random sample of 200 community service directors received a questionnaire concerned with: (1) their status, (2) associations with the Extension Service, (3) importance of the Service to their clientele, and (4) understanding and opinions of…

This study attempts to clarify the nature of the situations which do or do not lead to discriminatory behavior towards women. An attempt was made to compare women, under identical stimulus conditions, with a group known to receive discriminatory treatment, e.g., hippies. Sex and social deviance was factorially combined in two experimental…

This report to the Canadian Government from the Nova Scotia Women's Task Force examines the social issues and problems pertaining to the women's movement in that province. Discussions are provided on the situations and attitudes toward homemakers, working women, marriage, divorce, child care, education, health, and political participation.…