Middle-class respondents mistakenly deny that the work ethic is strong among the poor, fundamentally misunderstand how high work ethic leads to increased feelings of insecurity, and mistakenly project for the poor a strong identification of welfare income with income from quasi-illegal sources. (Author)

Examines Black occupational mobility and factors that have influenced the growth of the Black middle class since the 1960s. Argues that the Black middle class occupies a fragile market position because Black mobility depends on fluctuating government policy rather than on free market factors. (Author/MJL)

Examines the thesis that ideological beliefs about the poor and about poverty policy are in large measure a function of economic self-interest; the study is based on interviews with 300 white women in the Boston SMSA, representing three income levels. (Author/JM)

Concludes that middle class blacks are in fact racially conscious and proud, and that they manifest a fairly strong sense of group solidarity. (Author/AM)

Reports a survey of white neighbors of newly-arrived black families in a middle class suburb; survey was undertaken to find the relations between cosmopolitanism, socioeconomic status, tolerance toward black neighbors, and the extent of contact with blacks. (JM)

The images of women in women's magazine fiction in middle class and working class magazines between 1970 and 1975 are compared. (Author/RLV)

Analysis of self-report data from middle class adolescents shows that both peer relationships and elements of adult-child conflict affect the probability of vandalism. The strongest factors are peer-related, possibly because vandalism may be seen as a way of establishing positions within peer hierarchies. (Author/MC)