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Direct linkHurst, Allison L. – Theory and Research in Education, 2013
Have college students become careerists rather than intellectuals? Are working-class students to blame for grade inflation, grade-grubbing, and the downscaling of the university's noble mission of educating the whole person? These assertions, although somewhat buried in a mass of facts and findings, are present in almost every research study on…
Descriptors: College Students, Working Class, Middle Class, Classification
Peer reviewedPearson, Paul R.; And Others – Educational Studies, 1989
Reports a British study that explores relationship between social class and personality among 11-year-olds, using the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory-Short Form. Social class was determined by the father's occupation, and alternatively, by neighborhood. No correlation was found between father's occupation and any of the four personality…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Middle Class
