INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR EVENTS OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS INTERACTING AND WORKING TOGETHER IN THE CLASSROOM WERE STUDIED, ANALYZED, AND EVALUATED. THE MAIN FOCUS WAS THE CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP OF THE INTERPERSONAL ATTITUDES OF TEACHERS AND PUPILS IN INTERMEDIATE GRADE CLASSROOMS. TEACHERS' ATTITUDES WERE MEASURED BY (1) THE MINNESOTA TEACHER…

Drawing on a year long ethnographic study of a middle sized university community, this paper views entry into the counter culture as a process of self-transformation bearing similarity to therapeutic practices; major personal change strategies involve desocialization from conventional culture and from major social institutions--thus affording…

A careful review of all of E. Franklin Frazier's writings dealing with the Black middle class will put into perspective the distorted view many people have regarding his criticism in "Black Bourgeoisie" of the attitudes and behavior of the Black middle class. (EB)

The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised, the Slosson Intelligence Test, and the National Education Development Test were administered to a small sample of private school children ranging in age from 12.3 to 14.1 years. Correlations among these measures were moderate to high. (JKS)

Middle-class moderates had begun to adopt the confrontational tactics of student protesters when the ruling party in South Korea made dramatic concessions to opposition demands for direct presidential elections. It indicates that politics is beginning to bow to societal conditions. (MLW)

The duplex society, in which the poor live in close proximity to others but in a separate compartment, is already with us. Unless something deeply changes about family income, more than one-third of future generations will come to adulthood having spent a portion of their childhood in official poverty. (RM)

Discusses the meanings of the words culture, bourgeoisie, and ideology as a prelude to analyzing the condition of contemporary society. (RK)

Analyzes the machismo syndrome of middle class literature by Dickey and Mailer against the principles of Marxist criticism. Comment by Sol Yurick. (RB)

This study tests the hypothesis that compared to middle class children, disadvantaged preschoolers would be relatively more deficient in their ability to apply standard morphological rules to nonsense words than to meaningful words. The hypothesis was proven. (Author/EK)

Understanding the differences in values that differing cultures attach to play may help educators (1) to clarify the role of spontaneous play, (2) to recognize the limitations of competitive play, (3) to better balance directed and spontaneous play, and (4) to view play as absorbed, joyful, educative activity. (Author/AJ)

The effects of 4 months of gymnostic training upon complex and simple gross motor abilities and general cognitive and psychosocial functioning in 4-year-olds were compared with the effects of music training and no treatment. (WY)