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Download full textLewis, Michael; Wilson, Cornelia D. – 1971
This study was conducted to observe the effects of social class on the interaction of mothers and their 12-week-old infants. Data on the infants' cognitive and attentive behavior was also obtained. Each of 32 white and black infants from five different levels of social class was observed at home for two full hours of waking time. Observed infant…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Mothers, Blacks, Child Rearing
DAVIS, ALLISON – 1965
THIS 1948 LECTURE ON THE SOCIALIZATION AND MENTAL ACTIVITIES OF NEGRO AND WHITE MIDDLE- AND LOWER-CLASS CHILDREN DISCUSSES (1) THE STRUCTURE OF REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS AMONG MIDDLE- AND LOWER-CLASS PERSONS, (2) THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL CLASS ON PROBLEM SOLVING IN STANDARDIZED MENTAL TESTS, (3) THE NATURE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING ACTIVITIES AND MENTAL…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Culture Fair Tests
Peer reviewedKohn, 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
