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What's in a Relationship? An Examination of Social Capital, Race and Class in Mentoring Relationships
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Gaddis, S. Michael – Social Forces, 2012
After 25 years of intense scrutiny, social capital remains an important yet highly debated concept in social science research. This research uses data from youth and mentors in several chapters of Big Brothers/Big Sisters to assess the importance of different mentoring relationship characteristics in creating positive outcomes among youths. The…
Descriptors: Race, Social Class, Social Science Research, Mentors
Rejoinder to David Mechanic
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Kohn, Melvin L. – Social Forces, 1972
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Family Life, Lower Class, Schizophrenia
Social Class, Academic Ability, and College "Quality"
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Karabel, Jerome; Astin, Alexander W. – Social Forces, 1975
Using nationally representative data, this study analyzes the relative influence of social background and academic ability in determining the quality of the college attended. The results indicate that college quality, as measured by selectivity and affluence, is significantly related to social class, with this relationship mediated primarily by…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Quality, Equal Education, Higher Education
The Development of Class Awareness in Children
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Tudor, Jeannette F. – Social Forces, 1971
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Data Analysis
The Effect of Social Class on Tolerance of Defeat
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Guy, Rebecca F.; Allen, Donald E. – Social Forces, 1975
In order to test the hypothesis that middle-class subjects will spend more time on a difficult task than will working class subjects, 40 adult white married females were randomly selected from two small towns in north-central Oklahoma and given independently and in random order a logico-manipulative task and a motor-manipulative task. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Adults, Aspiration, Females, Performance Factors
Social Class and Schizophrenia: Some Requirements for a Plausible Theory of Social Influence
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Mechanic, David – Social Forces, 1972
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Family Life, Genetics
Social Class and Social Time Perspective
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O'Rand, Angela; Ellis, Robert A. – Social Forces, 1974
Discusses research which introduced and provisionally tested an improved methodological procedure (the Social Time Perspective Scale) for determining class-linked differences in the way persons anticipate the future and orient their behavior to it. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Performance Factors, Research Methodology, Social Class
Class, Family, and Schizophrenia: A Reformulation
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Kohn, Melvin L. – Social Forces, 1972
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.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Environmental Influences, Family Life, Genetics