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)

A study of 90 first grade children indicates that, for young children, visual-motor coordination is a behavior that facilitates effective expression in art. (Author/MK)

Compared the perceptual learning of reflective and impulsive kindergarten children. (WY)

Replicates and corroborates a study by L. L. LeShan which reported that middle class (MC) children's stories cover a longer time span than those of lower class (LC) children. MC children's stories, however, were also longer in length and contained more past tense verbs. Time span may be an artifact of story length. (DB)