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)

This paper attempts to demonstrate that the question of conformity and rebellion is ultimately one of social and political structure by comparing the demographic and economic class lines of the English Boy Scouts and the German Wandervogel. (Author/KM)

Discusses the class character and world view of Native Son'' and comments on the plot and subplot of the novel. Comment by Annette Conn. (RB)

Only steady employment when applying for rehabilitation services has predictive value for successful rehabilitation of alcoholics. (AG)

Parents of 7th graders whose moral judgments were humanistic" were found to use discipline techniques that varied according to the occasion, to use induction methods and to focus on issues and possible reparation. The discipline of parents of children whose moral judgments were conventional," frequently involved love withdrawal and emphasized…