Familiar or unfamiliar rejected, popular, neglected, and average Black fourth-grade boys met in play groups once a week for six weeks. The investigation focused on the extent to which social status becomes reestablished in new social circumstances and behavior patterns associated with the evolution of status positions in new groups. (RH)

Argues that there is a hormonal difference which exists between males and females which precludes the females from developing the same degree of strength, speed and power as her equally trained male counterpart. Nonetheless, the female has the ability to develop a high level of skill in any sport. (NG)

One hundred first-year women and 100 senior women attending a private liberal arts college in Minnesota completed a questionnaire about their class background and current class identity, and the extent to which they thought class had an affect on their lives. Information was also obtained about their scholarships and financial aid. While the…

To a greater extent than any other species, human beings create the environments that, in turn, shape their own development. This book endeavors to demonstrate that human beings can also develop those environments to optimize their most constructive genetic potentials. What makes human beings human, therefore, is both the potential to shape their…

The development of educational aspirations in high school students is represented in a causal model, measuring influence of referents at two points in time. Changes in effects of causes is central. Data suggests influence changes over time, parents exhert greatest influence, sex differences in decision-making processes are manifest. (Author)

Equal opportunities for women in the occupational world produce situations in which women are considered a potential source of disruption in high-status positions as a result of their expected status-articulation which interrupts routine. (JM)

The argument is advanced that the level of university student political activity in a society tends to reflect the degree of which the student social status is developed and formulated as a social type. Also considered are the historical and recent positions of students in the United States. (Author/DB)

Based on author's dissertation with the same title, University of Wisconsin. (Editor)

Junior high school students, particularly Negroes, experience an excessive amount of inner conflict because they are lacking in social skills and confidence. These feelings of insecurity stem mainly from an awareness of social ostracism. (CK)

Interviews were conducted for this study in the summer of 1965, and the data were analyzed during the fall of 1965 and winter of 1966.

Class society is vertically oriented and is reflected in such expressions as "on top" and "lower class." But solidarity, seen as respect for fellow human beings, is a horizontal relationship. Education for solidarity means an acknowledgement of human differences and a rethinking of our language implications. (CS)

Data collected from 400 teenagers and their parents indicate the important role played by both self-concept of ability and parental aspirations in the intergenerational transmission of social status. (Author/RM)

Examines components of familial risk in the context of a four-year longitudinal study of children with mentally ill mothers. Risk factors examined were parental mental health, social status, parental perspectives, and family stress. Interactions among risk factors were found to be complex and different for cognitive and social-emotional…