Research on the social determinants of health has increasingly sought to understand the relative importance of different features of socioeconomic status. Much of the ensuing debate has wavered between education and income, with recent research leaning increasingly toward income. This research has not, however, consistently explored interactions…

Drawing upon critical analyses of participant observations of classrooms, school documents, and in-depth interviews with teachers, administrators, and school-district supervisors conducted from 1999 to 2002, this qualitative study employs a post-structuralist framework to probe one US public elementary school's quest to realize educational equity…

This article addresses an enduring concern in the sociology of education: how social class differences are reproduced through schooling. In particular it focuses on the functioning of pedagogy in this regard. The article presents a model that elucidates the inner logic of pedagogy in order to reveal the structuring of inequality with respect to…

Although teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States declined for ten straight years during the 1990s and were less than half of comparative figures from 1957, the year of the all-time high of teen pregnancy, nearly one in ten teenage young women still became pregnant in 2001, with half of these young women giving birth. Teen pregnancy…

Study of the relative effectiveness of labeled praise (in which the specific behavior being praised is identified) and unlabeled praise given to white preschoolers by their mothers. Also attempted to determine whether social class differences were accompanied by differences in children's responses to or mothers' use of labeled and unlabeled…

Describes a number of factors in the social environments of two men which help to differentiate their work representing opposing opinions in the field of evolution. Discussed are the degree of parental influence, their education, social positions, and religious training. (EB)

This study of language use among secondary school students calls into question the hypothesis of social class difference. (DD)

Utilizing data drawn from a sample of 228 Standard Metropolitan Statistical areas for 1970, discusses socioeconomic differences between urban and suburban dwelling blacks. States that previous differences evened out in the sixties. Blacks now living in suburbs have slightly higher educational, occupational and income levels than those in cities,…

Used historical evidence to analyze how private sector benefits worked in the past in light of the debate surrounding the Social Security benefits and the federal deficit. Among conclusions reached are that the private sector failed to provide adequate protection for older citizens, and that benefits were inequitably distributed on basis of gender…

Test results from five-year-olds showed significant social class effects on all cognitive abilities but significant sex differences on only motor ability. Children with mixed or not-established hand preference had significantly lower general cognitive ability than right handers. (CMG)

The major finding of this study is that there is a larger socioeconomic status or Negro-White difference on intelligence measures than on measures of rote learning and memory. The difference in the performance of Negro and White children increases with age. (EH)

A total of 93 preschool children viewed either aggressive, prosocial, or neutral programs for four weeks. Observations of behavior before and after the viewing indicated that aggressive children showed increased aggression after watching aggressive programs; prosocial programs increased prosocial behavior. (ST)

Shows how social position may influence preference toward risk, and points out the value of social perspective in developing theories of decision-making involving risk. (DM)