This research was a pilot study that evaluated the impact of relationship schemas and the quality of children's friendships in children's person perception. This study extends previous work in this area in three ways by: (1) examining how children integrate multiple types of information to form impressions of others; (2) evaluating the impact of…

Noting that picture books can invite students to engage in critical discussion of complex issues of race, class, and gender, this lesson plan helps students to confront the injustice of barriers that separate human beings from one another and to examine the role of prejudice and stereotypes in sustaining these barriers. During the five 45-minute…

The main purpose of the project described in this article was to give young people an opportunity to live out and identify with an adult role, that of a teacher in a primary school being taken as one example. (Author)

As reflected in the occupational aspirations of parents for their recently graduated children, interpersonal dynamics in black homes may have been distinct from those in white homes. (Author)

Author proposes that the traditional concept of the teacher as a servant of the community may act as a resistor to change and may have to be overcome before any significant change in the status of teachers can occur. (Author/RK)

The findings in this study indicate that status inheritance and education explain more income discrepancy than has been found in earlier examination (JB)

In order to bring the study of bi- and tri-mixed racial groups into the body of racial theory, it is suggested that such groups be viewed as little races.'' Modern change threatens the future of the little races. (DM)

Examines the differences in race relations in various societies such as in the West Indies, Latin America, and the United States. (SB)

Self Realization, Job Security, Money, and Altruism were found to be the most important work values, with 5th and 8th grade students differing from 11th grade students on Altruism and Self Realization. (Author)

Educational reform has not taken place in India because of an unwillingness on the part of the upper social castes to make any changes that would be adverse to their interests. Consequently, ver few members of the lower castes receive any instruction beyond the elementary level. (CK)

Left-of-center criticism has emphasized the ties of the university to the industrial war-making establishment and the consequent weakening of the university's role as remote, objective critic. But even when the university does function as a liberal ivory tower, it serves the societal elite as importantly as when it offers expertise and personnel…

Four hundred and twenty-six randomly selected Ontario secondary school teachers rated 75 subject teaching positions on a prestige status scale. Academic subjects were accorded highest prestige, followed by commercial, then technical. Higher prestige was accorded by interacting teachers than by non-interacting teachers. (Author/JB)

A historical account is given of the steps preceding the 1897 reorganization of the St. Louis school board. (MF)

Previous efforts to frame age relations within the context of class stratification have been incomplete due to a failure to grasp the underlying continuity in the inequality produced by age and class location. Both age strata and social classes differ in their possession of valued resources and access to the means of acquiring these resources.…