Findings demonstrate that the function of receptive vocabulary is different from and more highly developed than the expressive vocabulary regardless of socio-economic level. (Authors)

Reports a survey of white neighbors of newly-arrived black families in a middle class suburb; survey was undertaken to find the relations between cosmopolitanism, socioeconomic status, tolerance toward black neighbors, and the extent of contact with blacks. (JM)

Results of this study were interpreted in terms of the social control function served by the public schools. (Author/RY)

Reports a survey in which American, British, and German adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 were asked to weigh the merits of two potentially intrusive laws and to state whether or not individual freedoms ought to be respected. (JM)

Observations concerning citizen attitudes toward public education which caused the defeat of two school tax levies in Canton, Ohio. (MF)

Author suggests specific reforms in liberal learning to make it more meaningful and responsive to the growing numbers of students in higher education and indicates that the alternative will be an insignificant impact of liberal arts and a lessening of the strength they bring to American society. (IR)

Smoking among students in a suburban high school appears to be part of a complex, symbolic process that is associated with a system of social differentiation between working class and middle class students. To be effective, anti-smoking programs should consider the social dynamics of smoking. (Author/MJL)

Calls for redefinition of the "Black middle class," based on (1) measurement of Blacks and Whites by uniform criteria, and (2) consideration of a group's relationship to the means of production. Stresses the need for research on the role of structural factors in the development of racial and class consciousness. (Author/GC)

Viability of Black, middle-class kinship groups is attributed to letter writing, personal contact, telephoning, mutual help, and ritual. Kin knowledge and interaction is reported to vary according to socioeconomic status and sex. Kin relations are said to be female-dominated and family reunions male-dominated. (JCD)

The increasing failure of cross-generational cultural transmission in America can be examined through research into the meaning of adolescent language usage. Adolescents view inconsistencies in adult society as contradictory to imposed norms. Since society is experiencing a loss of culture, secondary schools need to become the locus for its…