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Peer reviewedGoodwin, Leonard – Social Problems, 1972
Middle-class respondents mistakenly deny that the work ethic is strong among the poor, fundamentally misunderstand how high work ethic leads to increased feelings of insecurity, and mistakenly project for the poor a strong identification of welfare income with income from quasi-illegal sources. (Author)
Descriptors: Middle Class, Middle Class Standards, Poverty, Role Perception
Download full textMalpass, Roy S.; Symonds, John D. – 1972
Preferences for 92 values, obtained from a survey of cross-cultural studies of values, were obtained from two separate and geographically distant sets of groups consisting of black and white males and females of lower- and middle-Class status. The middle-class black population was of insufficient size to include, however. Value preferences were…
Descriptors: College Students, Goal Orientation, High School Students, Middle Class Standards
