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Entwisle, Doris R.; Hayduk, Leslie A. – 1975
This study examined: (1) the expectations of black and white lower class first graders for their own performance in reading, arithmetic, and conduct; (2) racial differences in the relationship between parental expectations and IQ; (3) correlation between the absences and lateness of first graders with reading and arithmetic marks and with parental…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior, Blacks, Elementary Education
Friedenberg, Edgar Z. – 1971
To be defined by age as a pupil or student is to be made subject to a system that functions as a total institution, in a society that prides itself on choice and pluralism. What justifies this, in nearly every nation in the world is that fact that the school is accepted throughout the society as the gateway to opportunity; and individual…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Lower Class, Middle Class, Political Attitudes
Haug, Marie R.; Sussman, Marvin B. – 1971
Current sociological theory, in which students are viewed as comprising a "new class," is discussed. "Student consciousness," an analogue to "class consciousness" in the Marxist social change model, is viewed from the aspects of dress, life style, taste, its common fate of dependence on academia and the aggregation of members in and around the…
Descriptors: Activism, Career Choice, Change Agents, College Students