Results of multivariate cross-tabular analysis of the college destinations of over 8,000 Illinois high school graduates of different sex, ability and social status backgrounds living in communities with and without a local public junior college question the assumption that the local availability of such institutions will enhance the probability…

A hierarchical system concerned with stratum at a given point in time was described in this study. Hypotheses were formulated concerning organizational or associational participation, religious preference, family decision-making, educational aspirations for children, and the assimilation of Negroes and Whites in the community. Survey data were…

The effects of induced status differences on (1) seating position and (2) interpersonal distance from a confederate of a given status level were investigated. Using behavioral measures, induced status differences were found to influence both the amount of interpersonal distance and the quality of space. The results suggest simulation techniques…

The status of women in the colleges and universities in New Jersey was determined by questionnaire responses from accredited institutions in New Jersey. Twenty-one institutions completed the questionnaire form. Analysis of responses cover women and tenure; a general picture and percentages of women on faculties, 1971-72 and 1972-73; percentages of…

A review of three experimental projects implemented by Unesco in the late 1960's to improve the status and equal educational opportunities of women includes: (1) Upper Volta, education for rural women; (2) Nepal, training primary school teachers; and (3) Chile, access of women to technical education. (LH)

Mainstream research has looked traditionally at the Black family to explain its overall difficulty in society, while dissenting studies have emphasized the effects of societal factors on the Black conjugal unit's function and structure. The dualistic nature of Black family research captures society's divergent impression of the Afro-American…

The author investigates social stereotypes in terms of status of occupations, rather than masculine dominance, and explores more fully the relationship between the need for achievement, sex, and occupational interests. (Author/RK)

A discussion of research exploring student-faculty conflict at two colonial American colleges. Social demographic differences between students and faculty is considered a possible cause of conflict. Biographical data of students, faculty records, and student diaries are used to answer: who were the faculty? who were the students in conflict with…

Data gathered from a sociometric survey of 177 fifth and sixth grade children, including 22 who were learning disabled (LD), indicated that LD children were less popular in general than non-LD children, that no LD children were extremely popular, but that LD children were not overly represented among social isolates. (Author/IM)

Described is a series of research studies which investigated the sociometric status, social behavior, and social relationship of learning disabled children by means of elementary school classroom observations and laboratory studies. (Author/IM)

Ninth-grade students from Western and Middle-Eastern ethnic backgrounds responded to a multiscale attitude questionnaire at the beginning and end of their first year in desegregated Israeli high schools. Neither the extent of previous ethnic contact nor the degree of ethnic mix in the classroom was found to affect attitudinal reactions to…

Describes a multivariate model of high school to college transition and college attainment. Asserts that enrollment in a high status secondary school enhanced, for males, the likelihood of enrolling in an academically select college. States that college selectivity had no effect on females' educational attainment, but seemed to increase males'…

This study examined the dynamics of schooling and ethnicity among Hmong girls in American high schools. Their community gave them secure identities and the extended family supported them, but they were treated as minorities by Americans. Their academic accomplishments did not change the power relations of society. (VM)

Investigated peer social status of 6- through 13-year-olds. Found anxiety-disorder children significantly less liked than normal children, but anxious and conduct-disorder children similarly liked. Conduct disorder children received more "like least" and "fight most" nominations, with anxious and nonreferred groups alike. The anxious group…