P. Bourdieu provides one of the few coherent accounts of the central role that the schools have in reproducing social and cultural inequalities from one generation to the next, while allowing for human agency. Some writings using Bourdieu's work in their arguments are critiqued. (RM)

Discusses illiteracy in social structural terms, that is, as a predictable consequence of the routine workings of basic institutions in a class-based society. Shows how, in this context, illiteracy can be seen as a "rational" achievement. (CMG)

Describes a study which examined the epidemiology of sex-role attitudes among a national probability sample of 1,626 American adolescents. Reports that more traditional sex-role attitudes are held by male, lower-class, and minority respondents. Assesses the impact of sex-role attitudes on conventional and delinquent behaviors and values.…

Considers the need to include gender in any consideration of job training programs. Summarizes recent studies of girls' experiences in schools and calls for a reconsideration of job training programs which will take into account the needs and experiences of girls as well as boys of varying class and race backgrounds. (CMG)

This paper is one of a series examining language and interactional patterns of white and black Americans manifested in cultural contexts. It considers the relative impact of the power or status differential on selective perceptions, attitudes and speech behavior where power difference is crucial to the communicative process. (CHK)

Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: gender, religion, family, and peer. For both males and females in Latin and Anglo cultures, gender emerged as the most prominent identity. Social and cultural differences between the two cultures were considered as explanations for variations in adolescent identity…

In distinguishing the characteristics of message systems, it was found that middle-class messages were generally more difficult to predict while working-class systems were more predictable and stereotyped. (Author/MB)

Findings suggest that there may be social class differences in the rate at which children acquire a mastery of the syntactic rule system of the language. (Author)

The condition of life experienced by people of lower social-class position tend to impair their ability to deal resourcefully with the problematic and the stressful. Such impairment would result only for people who are both genetically vulnerable and exposed to considerable stress--these may affect the lowest social classes with special severity.…

Effects of country of origin and social class on sex differences in body articulation were also analyzed. (Authors)

Results of this study were interpreted in terms of the social control function served by the public schools. (Author/RY)

Poverty may resist elimination because society needs it for its own security and well being. (DM)

By using an equality index to measure the amount of overlap between percentage distributions of whites and nonwhites, it is shown that nonwhites have substantially progressed toward equality in income, education, occupation, employment, and housing. (JM)