THE POOR FEEL THAT MEMBERS OF THE MIDDLE CLASS, INCLUDING CIVIL RIGHTS AND POVERTY WORKERS, DO NOT TRULY UNDERSTAND THE UNENDING STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL WHICH CHARACTERIZES A LIFE OF POVERTY. THE POOR DO NOT GLORY IN THEIR CONDITION AND ARE WILLING TO BE HELPED, BUT THEY ARE SUSPICIOUS OF AID WHICH SEEMS TO HUMILIATE THEM OR OF ANY PERSON WHO WOULD…

IN THIS STUDY, THE AUTHORS EXPLORE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUTHS AND THOSE ADULTS WHO MAY GUIDE THEM IN THE VALUES AND OPPORTUNITIES OF THE ADULT WORLD. IT IS ONE OF A SERIES OF FOUR STUDIES BASED ON THE CHICAGO STUDY. "STREET CORNER GROUPS AND PATTERNS OF DELINQUENCY." ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-EIGHT BOYS WERE TAKEN FROM THE POPULATION OF…

Describes the role and function of the rehabilitation counselor as the fulcrum of both the service delivery system and the subsidized counselor-training effort. Calls on counselor educators to promote specific changes in middle class values. Concludes by predicting rehabilitation counselors' needs over the next decade. (BP)

Data from six national surveys are combined and analyzed to determine how strongly occupational attainments affect the status perceptions of working wives. The results indicate that the effects are limited to women married to men with middle-class jobs. (Author)

This study questions whether social workers reflect a middle-class bias in establishing the standards by which they judge child neglect. Results suggest that a surprising unity of opinion exists among social workers, working-class mothers, and middle-class mothers in defining adequate child care. (Author)

Results from this study of 110 low-risk, middle-class infants showed that a significantly greater proportion of infants whose mothers worked full-time outside the home were assigned to the category "insecure-avoidant" than infants whose mothers remained in the home throughout their children's first year of life. (PCB)

This study used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (comprised of three subsamples taken in 1979) to characterize the siblings of middle class and poor Blacks and Whites, testing for racial differences in the probability of having a sibling on the other side of the socioeconomic divide. In support of theories in the urban poverty…

Analyzes the criticisms of linking middle-class values with the philosophy of rehabilitation. (AG)

Examines the relationship between smiling behavior and the correctness of responses on a pictorial word-recognition task for 4-and 8-year-old children. (Author/AJ)

Educational selection methods are not infallible. A considerable reservoir of unexploited intellectual ability remains in the working class. (Author)

Levi disputes Bell's belief (AA 511 929) that bourgeois culture has nothing intellectually respectable to counerpose to the adversary culture. (Editor)

A discussion in reaction to Bell's thesis (AA 511 929) of the reflection of, and influence on, culture in art. The author focuses on literature and argues that the function of literature is to provide multiple perspectives and to influence the reader, and that this it to the good. (Author/JB)

Reports results of answers given by pupils in one school (grades 1-6) to the question "What's a school for?" (WY)