Identifies a number of the major aspects of social class that freshman composition addresses in its aims of enabling students to think and write in ways that will make them good citizens of the academic (and larger middle class) community and viable candidates for good middle class jobs upon graduation. (TB)

A factual account of a 10-minute conversation between a husband and wife about their daughter's application to college depicts marital problems. Closer examination reveals the tensions facing the middle class family and the significance to them of academic competition, higher education, comparative generational success, and social acceptance.…

One of the most affluent segments of the population is also one of the least well prepared to face the reality of college costs. It is not the need analysis system that causes difficulty but a combination of rapidly increasing costs and the changing lifestyle of this group. (MSE)

Though America's students are increasingly diverse, most preservice educators have white, middle-class perspectives and cannot imagine teaching in multicultural urban schools. Six preservice teachers describe their experiences visiting a Harlem school, demonstrating that even brief visits can prompt students to critically examine their implicit…

As long as new programs based upon the compensatory model are advocated, and demands are made that the participants change to fit the programs, members of minority cultures will suffer. Suitable alternates to existing school admissions criteria would stop defining students in terms of deficiencies, instead focusing upon the positive aspects of…

By the middle of the nineteenth century American society was becoming restructured according to the concept of career. A new middle class emerged, and within it professionalism became the highest goal. The creation of the university in America provided the necessary matrix for its development, making possible new attitudes about authority,…

A serious obstacle to releasing the creativity of minority groups for future problem solving is the attitude of white middle-class males, particularly in colleges and universities, who think they are advancing the cause of minorities when they are not. Advances made by minorities are reviewed, along with their resources and some recommendations to…

Author discusses new brand of conservatism in the ambiguous territory known as Middle America, and its role in a changing liberal education. (IR)

Basic strategies for motivating and sustaining low income and minority students are discussed. (JD)

US higher education offers a diversity of programs, electives and courses but requires student conformity to prescribed values which relate only to societal structures within the academic community. Institutions of higher education emphasize achievement-oriented social styles evolving from an accepted philosophy that stresses energy, compromise…

Used the Continuum of Criminal Offenses to examine how the "law-abiding" community, representative of middle-class values, would rate the seriousness of selected criminal offenses and how they would then handle offenders. Results showed crimes rated as being more serious were dealt with more sternly in sentencing. (Author/JAC)

Using Inglehart's construct of materialism/postmaterialism, between 1975 and 1978 data were collected from Ball State (Indiana) University students regarding their value priorities. The majority of students were found to have mixed values, but the trend was toward materialism. (GC)

The new heroes and heroines who reject middle-class values and rewards are seeking fulfillment outside the mainstream and subtly altering the American profile. (LBH)

Library and information studies (LIS) traditionally emphasize pluralism (behavior of interacting individuals) and managerialism (organizations treated as systems) rather than class perspective, which argues that LIS curriculum is a middle-class practice aimed at maintaining cultural hegemony. Examines the corporate world links,…

This study examines the impact of world view and perceived personal competencies on feelings of alienation of black second-semester freshmen on a predominantly white university campus. Forty of the 120 18-year-old, American-born black freshmen volunteered as participants. Twenty-four females and 16 males completed the following instruments: (1)…