Observations concerning citizen attitudes toward public education which caused the defeat of two school tax levies in Canton, Ohio. (MF)

Author suggests specific reforms in liberal learning to make it more meaningful and responsive to the growing numbers of students in higher education and indicates that the alternative will be an insignificant impact of liberal arts and a lessening of the strength they bring to American society. (IR)

Smoking among students in a suburban high school appears to be part of a complex, symbolic process that is associated with a system of social differentiation between working class and middle class students. To be effective, anti-smoking programs should consider the social dynamics of smoking. (Author/MJL)

Calls for redefinition of the "Black middle class," based on (1) measurement of Blacks and Whites by uniform criteria, and (2) consideration of a group's relationship to the means of production. Stresses the need for research on the role of structural factors in the development of racial and class consciousness. (Author/GC)

Viability of Black, middle-class kinship groups is attributed to letter writing, personal contact, telephoning, mutual help, and ritual. Kin knowledge and interaction is reported to vary according to socioeconomic status and sex. Kin relations are said to be female-dominated and family reunions male-dominated. (JCD)

The increasing failure of cross-generational cultural transmission in America can be examined through research into the meaning of adolescent language usage. Adolescents view inconsistencies in adult society as contradictory to imposed norms. Since society is experiencing a loss of culture, secondary schools need to become the locus for its…

The images of women in women's magazine fiction in middle class and working class magazines between 1970 and 1975 are compared. (Author/RLV)

Traditional beliefs, values, and attitudes are being restructured by society, which deeply affects the role of the female adolescent. This article discusses these effects on the experience of the contemporary White American middle class female older adolescent (16-20 years old) in relation to the changing role of women. (Author/KC)

In contrast to traditional schools, free schools promote communication between teachers and students and among the students themselves. (Author/AM)

Discusses the ways in which three latter-day Black writers, (Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison), have raised questions about the values which Americans profess in common. (Author/JM)