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Rubin, Mark; Wright, Chrysalis L. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2015
The present research tested the hypotheses that (a) working-class students have fewer friends at university than middle-class students and (b) this social class difference occurs because working-class students tend to be older than middle-class students. A sample of 376 first-year undergraduate students from an Australian university completed an…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Class, Working Class, Middle Class
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Crozier, Gill; Burke, Penny Jane; Archer, Louise – Whiteness and Education, 2016
In spite of the relative success of the Widening Participation policy and strategies to increase the numbers of students from Black and Minority and White working-class backgrounds going to university, universities in Britain continue to be White and middle-class-dominated institutions. We found, in our two-year qualitative Higher Education…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Student Diversity, White Students, Middle Class
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Stefansen, Kari; Aarseth, Helene – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2011
This paper analyses qualitative interviews conducted with Norwegian middle-class parents. It explores how a particular type of intimacy--an "enriching intimacy"--is produced as part of everyday parent-child interactions and considers the notion of the social self that spurs middle-class parents to seek this very type of intimacy with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Middle Class
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Saxe, Geoffrey B. And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1987
Reports on interplay between social and developmental processes in children's numerical understandings in working- and middle-class home settings. Methods included interviews with 78 children aged 2 1/2 and 4 1/2 years to assess their numerical understandings, interviews with the mothers about their children's everyday number activities, and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Interpersonal Relationship
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Lamb, Michael E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1988
Type and quality of nonfamilial child care were found to have no significant effect on peer social skills, sociability with strange adults, and child personality. The major determinants of personality maturity were background variables. Prior social skills and age were the best predictors of peer social skills. (PCB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Characteristics
Bouchard, Ellen L. – 1969
The subjects in this study, 18 fifth- and sixth-grade students from a middle-class area, were asked to listen to a tape recording with excerpts of conversations by speakers of three dialects: middle-class white, lower-class white, and lower-class Negro. Subjects were asked to rate the personality of each speaker by voice cues alone. In addition,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Dialects, Grade 5, Grade 6
Bornstein, Marc H., Ed.; Bradley, Robert H., Ed. – 2003
Noting that there is near universal agreement that children from families with higher socioeconomic status (SES) have access to more of the resources needed to support their positive development than do lower SES children, this monograph examines the myriad questions remaining regarding relations among SES, parenting, and child development from a…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Child Rearing, Children