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Coles, Robert – New York Review of Books, 1975
This second part of a three-part article explores the development of political attitudes and political socialization in middle-class children. (EH)
Descriptors: Middle Class Culture, Middle Class Parents, Middle Class Standards, Political Attitudes
Tenenbaum, Samuel – Educ Leadership, 1969
Descriptors: Aspiration, College Students, Human Relations, Middle Class Parents
Downs, Anthony – Civil Rights Digest, 1970
Descriptors: Community Planning, Low Income Groups, Middle Class Parents, Middle Class Standards
Peer reviewedCottle, Thomas J. – Journal of Higher Education, 1991
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.…
Descriptors: College Admission, Competitive Selection, Educational Attitudes, Family Role
Download full textTENENBAUM, SAMUEL – 1963
THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES THE APPARENTLY UNBREACHABLE SOCIOECONOMIC GAP BETWEEN UPPER-MIDDLE-CLASS FAMILIES AND WELFARE FAMILIES WHO LIVE ON ONE BLOCK IN THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN. IN THIS CONTEXT THE ARTICLE CHALLENGES THE MIDDLE-CLASS ORIENTATION OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE "PHI DELTA KAPPAN," VOLUME 45, NUMBER 2,…
Descriptors: Class Attitudes, Educational Change, Lower Class, Middle Class Parents
Quinn, F. Duane – College Board Review, 1991
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)
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Higher Education, Life Style, Middle Class Parents
BELL, ROBERT R. – 1964
REPORTED IS A STUDY OF THE ASPIRATIONS OF 202 NEGRO MOTHERS FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S FUTURE. AN INTERVIEW SCHEDULE WAS ADMINISTERED BY TWO NEGRO WOMEN TO FOUR SUBGROUPS OF LOW AND HIGH STATUS MOTHERS. SUBGROUPS WERE DEFINED ON THE BASIS OF EDUCATION AND NUMBER OF CHILDREN. THE ASPIRATION OF THE RESPONDENTS WERE EXAMINED WITHIN THREE CATEGORIES--(1)…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Mothers, Career Choice, Children
Shapiro, H. Svi – Interchange on Education, 1983
The basic skills movement is viewed as a reaction, by sections of the middle class, to educational changes of the 1960s and 1970s. Curriculum changes during those years threatened the ability of the educated, white-collar worker to pass cultural advantages on to his or her offspring. (PP)
Descriptors: Back to Basics, Educational Attitudes, Educational Change, Educational Sociology
Etaugh, Claire; Hall, Patricia – 1978
This paper explores the hypothesis that parents consider preschool education to be more important for boys than for girls. To test this hypothesis, the following questions were examined: (1) Are boys disproportionately enrolled in nursery school? and (2) Do parents emphasize different reasons for enrolling boys and girls? The effect of social…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Rate, Lower Class Parents
Sreedhar, M. V. – 1985
Even though enrollment in elementary schools and national literacy rates have increased greatly in India since its independence in 1949, the number of dropouts and illiterate individuals will also continue to increase unless the needs of the socially disadvantaged are identified and met. The majority of the dropouts and the illiterates belong to…
Descriptors: Bias, Caste, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged
