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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
Peer reviewedUdry, J. Richard; And Others – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 1970
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Lower Class, Middle Class Parents, Mothers
Willie, Charles – 1976
This work is the result of an effort to further investigate the American black family, and to relate the findings to formally drawn sociological theories. The author directed a research project in which black and white undergraduate students conducted more than 200 case interviews among middle class, working class and lower class black families.…
Descriptors: Blacks, Case Studies, Family Characteristics, Family (Sociological Unit)
Feshbach, Norma D. – 1970
The purpose of the present investigation is to assess social class and race differences in the use of reinforcement by mothers and children. The general hypotheses underlying this approach is the expectation of a functional similarity between social class and race effects on the use of reinforcements by mothers and children. The subjects were 109…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Middle Class Parents, Mothers, Negative Reinforcement
Peer reviewedGorman, Thomas J. – Educational Foundations, 1998
Investigated 40 working-class and 40 middle-class parents' beliefs about the meaning of schooling by conducting in-depth interviews. Results indicated that middle-class parents tended to value schooling more for the credentials schools offered, whereas working class parents tended to value schooling more for the learning opportunities (applied and…
Descriptors: Educational Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Middle Class Parents
Peer reviewedVincent, Carol – Journal of Education Policy, 2001
Explores the social class/parental agency relationship by analyzing findings of a qualitative research project exploring parental voice in British secondary schools. A typology of parental interventions illustrates differentials in parents' access to and deployment of social, cultural, and material resources. Occupational pathways and spatial…
Descriptors: Family Income, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Middle Class Parents
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
