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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