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Gartner, Alan, Ed.; And Others – 1974
This book includes nine essays. In the Introduction: "The Lingering Infatuation with IQ," the editors argue that since the IQ test has again risen as an instrument of conservative policy, the test and the arguments built around it must be reexamined. Noam Chomsky criticizes the well-known "Atlantic" article, "IQ" (September, 1971), in "The Fallacy…
Descriptors: Biological Influences, Economic Opportunities, Environmental Influences, Heredity
Gordon, Thomas F.; Surlin, Stuart H. – 1973
Random telephone surveys in a northern and a southern city were initiated to determine attitudes toward "informative" and "direct reference" mass media political advertisements. Responses were organized in regional, social, and racial categories. The results quantified reactions to the two types of political messages of blacks…
Descriptors: Advertising, Attitudes, Beliefs, Differences

Tulkin, Steven R. – 1971
The purpose of this study was to investigate class differences in the responses of infants to tape recordings of mothers' and strangers' voices. Subjects were 10-month-old first-born Caucasian girls, 30 from middle class families and 30 from working class families. Stimuli presented through a speaker placed in front of the infant consisted of…
Descriptors: Attention, Auditory Perception, Eye Movements, Females
Triandis, Harry C.; And Others – 1971
Subjective culture is a cultural group's characteristic way of perceiving its social environment. An important aspect of a social environment are the jobs available for the consideration of an individual. The present study is an exploratory study directed at the examination of job perceptions among a group of white and black adolescents and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict
Nosow, Sigmund – 1972
This study is concerned with attitudes of family members, and whether such attitudes indeed vary with different family structures. The increasing sociological and psychiatric evidence seems to support the existence of family strengths in families which have been defined as unstable because of structural attributes. Given the historical character…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Attitudes, Family Influence, Family Structure
Dervin, Brenda; Greenberg, Bradley, S. – 1972
The purpose of this document is to review the growing body of literature focusing on poverty and communication, assess it, and posit directions for future work. In all, some 4000 different studies are examined to develop an overview of the communication environment of the urban poor. No more than 200 had some relevance to poverty-communication;…
Descriptors: Blacks, Communication Problems, Communications, Economic Factors
Evans, Selby H. – 1973
A promising measure of learning ability has emerged from extensive research on schema theory: the Schematic Concept Formation (SCF) Test. Experimental evidence has already demonstrated substantial individual differences in SCF performance for third and fourth graders and college students. Because SCF depends on the learning of relatively…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Tests, Cultural Differences
Fomon, Samuel J., Ed.; Anderson, Thomas A., Ed. – 1972
The contents of this document include the following papers, each followed by a discussion amongst workshop participants: "Nutritional Studies on United States Preschool Children: Dietary Intakes and Practices of Food Procurement, Preparation, and Consumption, "Kathryn M. Kram and George M. Owen; "Food and Nutrition Intake of Children from Birth to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Blacks, Child Rearing, Cultural Differences
Kretchmer, Norman, Ed.; Walcher, Dwain N., Ed. – 1969
A cross-disciplinary approach to the topic of sexual differentiation comprises this volume. Diverse papers are included under a variety of headings: 1) critical Periods in development; 2) embryology; 3) RNA-DNA; 4) chromosomes-growth and development; 5) physiology; 6) primates; 7) cognition; 8) cultural differences in patterns of sexual behavior;…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies

Sleeter, Christine E.; Grant, Carl A. – Urban Education, 1985
Pupils from a multiracial, multicultural community were found to be relatively knowledgeable about and accepting of differences. The school, however, did little specifically to increase intergroup knowledge or understanding. (GC)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups, Group Dynamics

Grant, Linda; Rothenberg, James – Elementary School Journal, 1986
Examines the stratifying processes of grouping and tracking in the primary grades among high- and low-ability reading groups and presents a framework for comparing students' experiences in the reading groups. (HOD)
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Behavior Patterns, Grade 1, Grade 2

Breitmayer, Bonnie J.; Ramey, Craig T. – Child Development, 1986
A four-and-a-half-year longitudinal experiment reconsidered the contribution of organic impairment to the genesis of mild mental retardation among disadvantaged children. It was hypothesized that nonoptimal perinatal conditions might result in deficits that increase a child's vulnerability to environmental risk factors. Study results supported the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Day Care

Higginbotham, Elizabeth – Journal of Ethnic Studies, 1985
Educated Black women are often wrongly viewed as a homogeneous group, obscuring important differences of social class. Black women of different social classes do not face the same route to college. Both race and class operate within urban settings to either create or limit the options and strategies available to Blacks for attaining educational…
Descriptors: Black Education, Disadvantaged Environment, Educational Mobility, Higher Education

West, Leo H. T. – Australian Journal of Education, 1985
A study of the reliability of Australia's standardized Higher School Certificate as a predictor of freshman performance found it to be biased with respect to the type of secondary school attended, but not the father's occupational status or the student's country of birth. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission Criteria, College Admission, College Freshmen

Schiamberg, Lawrence – Adolescence, 1969
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conflict, Cross Cultural Studies, Family Relationship