It was predicted that lower class case histories would be judged more negatively by those Ss who were more authoritarian as measured by the F Scale. This prediction was confirmed for a group of 24 psychiatric residents and bordered on significance for a group of 16 social work students. (Author)

Argues that many present programs equate economic improvement with ethnic assimilation, and are based upon values of individualism, although the interests of both the cultural minorities and the nation would be served by the reinforcement of ethnicity. (JM)

Recounts history of Windsor Hill School, Los Angeles, its change from a white to a black community institution, its maintenance of high academic standards through parental intervention and action, and the high achievement levels of its black students. (RJ)

Black, middle class males generally supported nontraditional roles for women, women's issues, and egalitarian marital relationships. These data, along with results of an earlier study, indicated that this group's preferences concerning female roles were determined not only by social class, but also by ethnic/class-related values, needs, and…

Demonstrates that the number of low income or "underclass" Black families has increased over the past decade, while the proportion of low income Black families in the general population has remained relatively unchanged. However, there does not seem to be a widening economic cleavage within the Black community itself. (Author/GC)

Aspects of daydreaming and associated mental activity were examined for sex differences in well-educated middle class Whites aged 17 to 92 years. Females reported daydreams of a problem solving nature, and lower levels of daydreams of a sexual, bizarre-improbable, heroic and achievement-oriented nature. Daydreaming contents decreased with age.…

The sociocultural and economic conditions that have improved our standard of living and fostered personal fulfillment have also undercut the stability and happiness of the middle class nuclear family. If such conditions persist, unbridled individualism will continue to disrupt family life and children will pay the costs of inadequate parenting.…

Examines the nonintentional responses of 141 middle-class first graders to Piagetian-type moral reasoning stories. (CM)

Middle class Japanese children whose willingness to cheat in a game had been observed at age four were administered a version of a Machiavellianism scale seven years later. Developmental changes in Machiavellianism, sex differences, and belief behavior congruency were considered in the Japanese cultural context. (Author/GC)

The numbers of disciplinary referrals to the principal's office for 202 boys and 202 girls from a middle-class, suburban junior high school were obtained from student records and fitted to a highly skewed negative binomial distribution. The fitted and observed distributions do not significantly differ. (Author)

Forty middle-class mothers and their 12-month-old infants participated in an examination of the extent to which infant sociability and home experiences were correlated with cognitive capacity. (JMB)