Describes findings of an investigation of values and interpersonal perceptions of high school seniors and parents of high school seniors. The findings support the notion that there is relatively little value conflict, and that the "generation gap" within middle- and lower-middle-class families is largely a myth. (Author)

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)…

Looking at holiday observances and patterns of contact and interaction among kinsmen, this paper examines the values middle class people hold about both close and distant kinsmen and investigates how consistent their actual behavioral patterns are to these expressed values. A questionaire was constructed and administered to a class of…

Criticizes the general acceptance by social scientists of the "culture of poverty" thesis as regards Blacks. Through anecdotes and interviews from the writings of Robert Coles, shows that the values and goals of Black Americans are generally oriented toward education, hard work, and economic advancement. (GC)

Reprinted from the November 1967 issue of PHI DELTA KAPPAN Magazine.

Three experienced social workers discuss the question "Do we or don't we impose middle-class norms on lower-class clients?" The discussion covered the general areas of (1) imposing values, (2) scapegoating, (3) functional norms, and (4) fatalism and poverty. (Author/BW)

A survey of 18 values held by selected groups of preservice teaching candidates and by successful, urban, secondary-school teachers showed a divergence that can be expected to affect personal characteristics and teacher behaviors, as well as instructional success or failure in a variety of teaching environments. The two groups differed…

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…

This paper argues that teachers of remedial students must make their students create their own order and meanings which may be at variance with the established order around them, but are valid nevertheless. Current research stresses the need to develop a positive self-concept, particularly in remedial students and in those whose cultural values…

The lives of Americans today are ruled by interlocking corporations. These corporations together present only one kind of life as viable: the consumer's life. Television is their main means of presenting this view. One cannot choose something he does not know about, and many Americans are not sufficiently informed of the alternatives to make an…

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)