Social support provisions were examined in relation to negative life events, adaptive skills, hope, and grade point average in a sample of 103 inner-city youth (ages 11-14). Analyses focused on seven support provisions: social integration, attachment, guidance and information, reliable alliance, reassurance of worth, nurturance, and instrumental…

The author presented a short history of his Irish heritage and defended his family's ethnic contributions to American culture with the plea that ethnicity should be encouraged as a cultural strength rather than as a threat to American cultural cohesion. (RK)

This study explores the development of youth stratum consciousness in four groups of youth: white collar and blue collar students and nonstudents. The research employs a social movement paradigm suggesting an explicit developmental sequence from initial awareness through crystallized ideology and behavior expression. The data clearly provide…

A discussion of the multiple problems confronting immigrant laborers to Western Europe in terms of acculturative pressures, housing difficulties, and social integration. Special attention is devoted to the dilemma of how best to educate their bicultural children. (EH)

This digest defines students with severe handicaps, documents the benefits of integrating students with severe disabilities into regular classrooms, and outlines procedures for facilitating integration. It notes some issues associated with access and scheduling, areas in which additional support might be needed, ways to incorporate information…

Uses data drawn from a longitudinal study to examine the several viewpoints from which the degree of success (as measured by absorption and integration) a minority group family will have after deciding to leave an agricultural or migrant economy may be considered. (Author/JM)

Desegregation, still in process, constituted the first mile. Now desegregation is making few major gains. Through the approaches of "community study, democratic atmosphere, curriculum permeation, and group dynamics," joined by the current emphasis on the "direct experience" approach, perhaps the second mile can be traveled to achieve integration.…

Discusses an essay assailing the new pluralistic consciousness as a danger to individuality and personal autonomy. (Editor)

Keynote presentation at the Annual Workshop of the Pacific Southwest Regional Council, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (Los Angeles, November 8, 1968).

This study is based on the hypothesis that a functional relationship exists between the emergence of Korean Christian churches in America and an increasing number of Korean immigrants to the United States. The categories investigated include: (1) demographic characteristics of church membership; (2) the purely religious role of the churches; (3)…

Although sports historians have not often dealt with the athletic club movement of the late 1800s and early 1900s, much of the credit for the institutionalization of sport as a significant aspect of American culture should be attributed to these clubs. The athletic club movement began with the founding of the New York Athletic Club in 1866. By…

The construction of self-administered, programed, culture training manuals, called "Culture Assimilators," is described here. These programs provide an apparently effective method for assisting members of one culture to interact and adjust successfully with members of another culture. Culture assimilators have been constructed for the…

Of a questionnaire sent to 1700 Asian students enrolled in the 1970 spring semester at Los angeles City College, 659 (38%) responded. Returns were mostly from those of Japanese or Chinese ancestry who were categorized as (1) foreign-born, (2) native-born, and (3) those from Hawaii. A distinct language barrier between the foreign-born and…

The results of this study show that friendship formation is guided by the principle of similarity of racial and cultural group membership. The discontinuity between intergroup attitudes and intergroup affiliation can be seen in the results of the race relations surveys administered in the Army. (Author/WI)

The central thesis of this article is that schools may be used by a governing population to impede the integration of subordinate national minorities into the national society while simultaneously fostering a sense of identification with the symbols of that society. (Author)