Following a mathematics test, 134 sixth-graders from different social class/national origin groups, were asked to attribute causality for their success or failure. All groups tended to attribute success more to internal than external causes and more to stable than unstable causes. Attributions of failure varied between the groups. (Author/SJL)

A truly balanced institution of liberal learning requires that socially useful information be broadly defined in order to safeguard academic freedom and foster the goals of a social democracy. (CJ)

The sample for this study consisted of 200 White, middle class, senior liberal arts majors, equally divided into four political groupings: conservatives, moderates, liberals, and radicals. Questionnaire items gauged specific occupations of interest and the various extrinsic and intrinsic satisfactions subjects expected to derive from work. (SJL)

A random sample of 369 middle-class California women were divided into feminine, androgynous, masculine, and undifferentiated categories based on Bem Sex Role Inventory scores. Significant demographic time utilization, personality, and attitudinal differences were found to be consistent with sex typing. Differences in health were not found.…

Certain aspects of school organization such as rationalization and bureaucratization serve both to fend off parents' demands and to assure at least minimal compliance with these demands. (Author/RLV)

A 14-item questionnaire was administered to 240 White middle class high school students to assess the seriousness of typical adolescent problems. The three most worrisome problems were physical appearance, careers, and grades. Sex, age, and college v work-bound differences are discussed. The questionnaire is included. (Author/SJL)

Maintains that America's lowered expectations about education are not a loss of previous American virtues but neither are they a "culture of indulgence" as Damon suggests; they are simply adaptations by the populace to the difficult job of getting along in a highly competitive world. (MDM)

Explores the adequacy of the theoretical frameworks for analyzing teachers as class workers, political actors, and as an occupational group. Addresses concepts of class, labor, and teachers. Focuses on the sphere of exchange in understanding teachers' social class interest and teachers as political actors. Includes references. (CMK)

Two studies examined the influences of concordant and nonconcordant attachment relationships to mothers and to child caregivers on children's behavior in child care. In both studies, the child's level of competence in play with the caregiver and engagement with peers was a function of attachment security with both mother and caregiver. (NH)

Examined the possibility that the degree of synchronization between parent and adolescent ratings of pubertal maturity is related to faulty beliefs about interpersonal relationships in the family. Results indicated that adolescent-parent synchrony affected adolescents' faulty beliefs. Mothers' endorsement of faulty beliefs was related to…

All 14 children in a Mayan sample slept in their mothers' beds into toddlerhood, whereas none of the 18 children in a U.S. sample slept in their mothers' beds on a regular basis. Mayan and U.S. parents' explanations for these practices are reported. (BC)

Discusses changes in the education of middle class British girls during the nineteenth century. Reports that, although girls' education resembled boys' and promoted self-actualization and vocational preparation, an accepted aim was to produce good wives and mothers. Observes that challenges to women's presumed roles were not widespread until later…

Questionnaire and interview findings from 36 white middle-class adolescent boys found that the first ejaculation was psychologically meaningful but socially invisible. Those who felt more prepared expressed more positive feelings and coped better. Psychosocial and developmental difficulties in sexual education for young males are discussed. (SLD)

Suggests a model of industrial education for the Arab world to help create an industrial middle class. Reviews existing Eurocentric industrial training models and proposes a synthesis of these models with Arab-Islamic culture in a kind of "industrial university," the Djamiat Al-Sinah. Illustrates the proposed curriculum with a…

Describes preliminary results from research on language socialization practices of Black middle-class children and their mothers in Chicago (Illinois). Focus is on personal storytelling as a conduit through which values, beliefs, and identity are transmitted to middle-class Black children. (JB)