This study investigated the use of IQ as a measure of learning rate with children of similar ethnic origin but difference socioeconomic backgrounds. (GO)

Tried to determine whether the self-esteem of black women who worked outside the home was higher than that of black women who were homemakers exclusively. Investigated the population of black college-educated wives of professional men and found that those who worked outside the home had higher self-esteem than those who remained at home.…

This essay relates the economic cycle, unemployment, and inflation to reading habits and public library circulation. Highlights include recent English sociological study and its implications for current increases in public library use, future library use, effect of the economy on kind of public library use, and reasons why people read. (EJS)

This longitudinal study investigated the relation between mood, attitudes, and behaviors in a middle-income sample of first-time mothers. (PCB)

Examines current demographic projections in terms of five major concepts (fertility, age, region, race, and immigration) and analyzes their impact on tomorrow's schools. Beset with a declining birthrate, an aging population, and increasing numbers of poor and minority students, schools' major responsibility is to create winners and new recruits to…

The proportion of employment in higher paying occupations increased for all groups from 1973 through 1982, but the earnings distribution of these occupations shifted to include more lower paying positions. (Author/CH)

Discusses how gentrification, described as due to both a shift in middle class values and to government policy, has forced out the single room occupancy hotels, rooming houses, and shelters that serve marginal populations and thus contributed to the growing numbers of homeless people. (CMG)

The related questions of concern in this paper are: (1) Is information a critical factor in the vocational development of the middle-class student? (2) Are middle-class students significantly influenced by occupational information? and (3) Is relevant occupational information reaching the middle-class student? (Author)

Data from the NLSY (National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) were analyzed to test two competing hypotheses regarding how poverty affects the relationship between delinquency and educational attainment. The cumulative disadvantage perspective argues that poor youth suffer greater consequences for their involvement in delinquency than middle and…

Traditionally, little attention had been paid and little research has been done pertaining to the strengths, rather than the deficits, of the African-American family. This study, guided by a holistic perspective that makes families the central unit of analysis and focuses on their strengths, investigated which variables are associated with…

The author analyzes some of the effects of government sponsored financial aid programs including pricing middle income students out of the college market. Presented before the 29th annual conference of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Chicago, October 12, 1973. (RP)

The historical interaction of the avant garde and the bourgeoisie is evaluated and the future of the avant garde is forecast. (RK)

The aim of this paper is to deal mainly with the fashions in lecture and debating subjects which are to be found nationally in England in the nineteenth century. (Author/RK)