Middle- and lower-class children who had been treated by E in a warm or aloof manner were given a discrimination learning task under one of six conditions forming a 3 by 2 design: three reinforcement types (Verbal-intoned, Verbal-nonintoned, or Symbolic) and reinforcement for correct or incorrect responses. (Editor)

Deals with some problems in the operation of a school in a white middle-class Chicago community and the attempt by a segment of the community to influence the direction of their school. (Author/JM)

Paper is concerned with the problem of research needs for effective communication between people who have up to an eighth grade education and those who have an education from the twelvth grade and beyond. (RK)

The condition of life experienced by people of lower social-class position tend to impair their ability to deal resourcefully with the problematic and the stressful. Such impairment would result only for people who are both genetically vulnerable and exposed to considerable stress--these may affect the lowest social classes with special severity.…

Black student from middle class family recounts his experiences before and after attending a community high school. (RJ)

Explains why the young have to give their parents new yardsticks by which the latter can measure their childrens maturity and come to understand their moral concerns and convictions. (RJ)

Findings demonstrate that the function of receptive vocabulary is different from and more highly developed than the expressive vocabulary regardless of socio-economic level. (Authors)

Reports a survey of white neighbors of newly-arrived black families in a middle class suburb; survey was undertaken to find the relations between cosmopolitanism, socioeconomic status, tolerance toward black neighbors, and the extent of contact with blacks. (JM)

Results of this study were interpreted in terms of the social control function served by the public schools. (Author/RY)

Reports a survey in which American, British, and German adolescents between the ages of 11 and 18 were asked to weigh the merits of two potentially intrusive laws and to state whether or not individual freedoms ought to be respected. (JM)