Examines the important and different relationships between job scope (complexity) and need for achievement in males and females. Discusses how the relationship between work and nonwork activities varies with the aspect of nonwork under consideration. Notes that job scope is often negatively correlated with intellectual leisure activities. (SB)

Provides a macrohistorical, conflict perspective on students' resistance to schooling in contemporary America. Proposes that adolescence is not a universal stage of life, but a social category produced only in industrial societies; resistance to schooling thus represents the most recent stage in the struggle between age strata over social goods.…

Two major types of sociometric measures were administered to groups of learning handicapped and nonhandicapped children. Common scoring methods were compared. Data analyses indicated that variation in class placement of learning handicapped children is crucial in judging the appropriateness and interpretation of content of various sociometric…

Criticizes impressionistic or outdated measures of socioeconomic status, recommends the Duncan Socioeconomic Index and the Siegel Prestige Scale, and describes a strategy for measuring household or family SES when household composition and characteristics vary. (Author/DB)

Discusses the effects of household density on subgroups' reports about their dwellings, family life, social relations, and wellbeing. Reports more dissatisfaction among respondents in high density homes if they are mothers, have young children, or have low status in the household. (JW)

Examined past efforts to improve the Indian elderly's quality of life, summarized mental health issues, critically reviewed relevant literature, and reported results from a needs assessment survey of Indian elderly. Journal availability: see RC 503 481. (DS)

The notion of equal opportunity is discussed in relation to the economic and cultural inequalities in American society. Common assumptions about education's function in the struggle toward equality are questioned and an alternative paradigm of schooling in relation to social equality is suggested. (Author/GC)

Examines the extent and nature of social bias in the recruitment of school board members. Concludes that board members of both races tend to have family origins that are generally of higher socioeconomic status than those of the corresponding adult public, and that they have achieved more upward social mobility than their respective general adult…

Women of Asian ancestry have faced sex role stereotyping and discrimination as well as racial discrimination both in their own and American cultures since they immigrated to this country. (Author/EB)

Details examples of prejudice, suggesting underlying reasons for the same, on the part of professional librarians concerning distribution of the Women's History Research Center's microfilm series. It is concluded that, until prejudice is overcome, the intellectual analysis of gender roles so necessary to changing status of women will be…

This research was designed to measure the abilities of black and white students in determining the race and status of a speaker. Forty black and white college undergraduates listened to a tape recording of 24 voices and were asked to distinguish sex, race, and status of speaker. The hypothesis that black students would be more skillful at this…

Marginalization of a portion of American youth is described as a result of the structure of the major socialization agencies, the family and the school, in contemporary capitalist society. (Author)

Examines the social system developed by students in their high schools as well as the scope and functioning of the status system itself. (Author/RK)

Discusses the history of differential treatment of individuals with mental retardation by those with other disabilities and details the life of Laura Bridgeman, a child with deaf-blindness, and her disdain for children whom she believed to be intellectually inferior. The social stigma of mental retardation is explored. (CR)