Two common perspectives regarding lower-class behavior are examined. The authors find little empirical support either for the "culture of poverty" position, with its singular emphasis on retained and transmitted cultural modes, or for the "blocked opportunity" or "situational" hypothesis. Recent evidence is adduced which shows a 3rd perspective,…

The research on which this book is based began as a study of problems in a public housing project, Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis, and ended as a study of the dynamics of socioeconomic inquiry. The original principal investigators were concerned with what could be learned about the people in the project to assist governmental agencies. As the study…

Since one primary goal of the Commodity Distribution (CD) Program and the Food Stamp (FS) Program is to improve diets of low-income families, this 1969-70 study focused on whether the adequacy of a low-income family's dietary intake was improved by their participation in a food-assistance program. As stated, the adequacy of a family's dietary…

These hearings on the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs are organized in two parts, the contents of which are as follows. Part I concerns the Summer Lunch Program Funding, with opening statements by two senators, followed by the presentations of other witnesses. The focus of these two parts is on such topics as program needs,…

The Division of Compensatory Education, which administers Title I in the U.S. Office of Education, has examined a number of successful projects to determine what constitutes a good Title I project and what are the common denominators of success. The Williamsburg program, involving 25 kindergarten teachers, 100 teachers in grades 1 through 4, 20…

This resource book is a compilation of data about youth which was prepared for the participants of the White House Conference on Youth. The tabular data are divided into eleven sections. In the first section, the youth population, ages 14 through 24, is contrasted with the general population with respect to geographic location, race, marital…

This paper is concerned with conceptualizing from the human potential perspective the quality of life, poverty, the "good social system", service delivery, and social indicators. Theories of Maslow and other humanistic educators which stress the need for self actualization provide a framework to sociologists for improving human conditions by…

The author concludes that there is no convincing evidence of differential occupational returns to education, except for effects of race and farm background. There is an interaction effect of fathers' occupational status, as well as race, with the returns to work experience in an equation for income. Findings are either negative or inconclusive…

This report contains the original article by Christopher Jencks and Mary Jo Bane on inequality, which was based on the book entitled, Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in America, by Christopher Jencks and others. To assist school administrators in assessing Jencks' findings, the American Association of School…

In this document, the author traces the history of, explains the revisions to, and points up the political issues involved in the National School Lunch Act of 1964 and the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. The author cites research that establishes the adverse effect of malnutrition on the learning process, outlines basic concepts for nutrition…

In 1967 the National Advisory Commission on Rural Poverty made a comprehensive study and appraisal of the economic situations and trends in American rural life; evaluated the means by which existing programs, policies, and activities relating to rural people might be coordinated or redirected; and developed recommendations for action by government…

Communications is critical to community development, especially rural communities that are poor, immobile and at a distance from a major metropolitan area. The isolation of these communities comes out of a need for cohesiveness within a system that functions for them. There is some mutual support between their economic, political, and social…

Four kinds of U.S. anti-poverty programs were analyzed in terms of their impact upon the rural poor. Examination of 13 rural Community Development Corporations (CDC) in terms of prior and present poverty of non-manager employees indicated the effect of these programs was one of merely changing the source of income rather than the stratification…

The same parents who send their children great distances to private schools espouse the sanctity of the neighborhood school and protest busing. The real issues are racism and poverty. Until we come to grips with the education of the poor, all desegregation plans become useless exercises. (Author/SJL)

Outlines India's attempt to bring educational services to the poorest sections of its society. Examines mobile child care centers (creches), nursery and elementary schools, training of creche workers, education of parents, and use of community resources. (JK)