Reports a study of 5,800 high school students to examine the congruity in the content, organization, and consistency of Blacks' and Whites' racial attitudes. Racial attitudes are most similar among students who perceive themselves as middle class, are average academically, attend racially balanced schools, and are young. (Author/KC)

Using interview data collected from 595 subjects in five Utah counties, this study identified through factor analysis two dimensions of community satisfaction (economic and interpersonal). Results showed rural people tended to have highest levels of interpersonal satisfaction while urban people were more economically satisfied. (DS)

Analyzes the performance of individuals in real brainstorming groups in an attempt to determine the relationship between individual ideational output, perceptions of status within the group, and communication apprehension. (JMF)

Assessed in this paper is the contribution of local facilities and services to the stability of urban neighborhoods within the broader economic and social parameters which characterize them. (Author/EB)

This paper examines the theoretical and empirical relationship of income poverty to infant mortality differentials. Taken into consideration is the relative impact of a variety of biological, social, and economic factors upon the risk of infant death. (Author/EB)

This study, examining school board elections in Tucson, Arizona, focuses on three research points: (1) the extent to which voters prefer candidates of their own racial/ethnic background; (2) the sociopolitical factors affecting these voters' preferences; and (3) the degree of voter polarization among Chicano and Anglo voters. (Author)

Regression surface analysis was used to examine relations between family environment, assessed in parent interviews, and measures of academic achievement at different levels of school-related attitudes for 800 11-year-old children from lower and middle class groups: Anglo Australian, Greek, recent English immigrants, and Southern Italian.…

This paper examines the social context of female deviant behavior. It is held that the fact that women deviate less than men and in privatized and self-destructive forms is consistent with the ideology of the female nature and with women's social position. (MC)

The effects of streamed (ability-grouped) v tracked (heterogeneously-grouped) classes on student self-esteem, academic self-concept, sociometric choice and attitude to the school environment were studied, using sixth-grade pupils in eight Sydney, Australia primary schools. Socioeconomic variations in the results are discussed. (SJL)

A comparison of graduates of Black Hawk College who transferred to Western Illinois University and those who entered the external Board of Governors degree program show significant differences in age, marital status, and employment. Few transfers considered the external degree program; few external degree enrollees considered transferring.…

Examined the impact of support systems on post-divorce family functioning. Results suggest that families under extreme stress need to be provided with relatively high levels of support or their dissatisfaction with support systems will appear in harsher and more restrictive relationships with children. (Author)

Utilizing 1966 and 1968 data, this study investigated the dynamics of occupational aspiration employing the following variables: socioeconomic status of family of origin; race (White and non-White); residence; occupational knowledge; level of occupational aspiration in sophomore year; level of perceived goal-blockage as sophomore; and level of…

Reports on a study that used 182 entering college freshmen to investigate the relationship between social position and level of study habits, and the prediction of study habits by the addition of two family correlates (birth order and family size) to social position. (RL)

The socioeconomic status of a community is the strongest predictor of salary levels paid to teachers. Both community ability and effort are strongly affected by socioeconomic status factors, which in turn condition characteristics of teachers (experience and training levels) through staffing and salary policies of boards of education. (Author/IRT)

Examines two aspects of adolescence that are components of an explanation of delinquency other than social class; school status and delinquent subcultural involvement. Analysis of data from a longitudinal panel study of males in the Pacific Northwest indicates that both components are related to delinquency. (Author/JM)