Feminist perspective advocates educational efforts representing diversity of contemporary U.S. family life by race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Attends to issues of content, such as social construction of difference and intragroup diversity, and suggests pedagogical strategies to handle emotional climate of classroom and encourage…

Investigates the practicality of extending the Multidimensional Self Concept Scale (MSCS) norms downward for use with third and fourth grade students from a predominantly African-American sample. Internal consistency for the MSCS for third- and fourth-grade students was comparable to fifth- and sixth-grade students in the sample. (Author/MKA)

Women often have low performance expectations for themselves but expect other women to succeed. This study finds that minority students think not only that they will do worse than other minority group members but also that their group will do poorly. Low individual and group success expectations make the results for minorities doubly troubling.…

A study of 1,150 employees (464 men, 682 women, 149 people of color) indicated that women and minorities who were not Asian, Black, or Latino had network members with significantly lower status because they held positions that limited access to powerful people. Structural rather than personal exclusion explained racial/ethnic and sex differences.…

This report provides estimates of the lifetime and annual incidence of certain infectious diseases of children in various demographic groups. Data on the social and health care impact of the diseases in terms of limited activity, days spent in bed, school days lost, contacts with physicians, hospitalizations, surgery, and use of medication are…

Society does not view rape seriously. Few rape crimes are successfully prosecuted. Rape results in permanent alteration of the victim's life. Besides street rape there is no consensus on the definition of rape. This study attempts to gather people's perceptions of rape. Subjects (N=96) were approached randomly and accepted if they fit into desired…

To locate possible causes for the gender and race differences observed in adolescent health status, an analysis was made of the relationship between the scores of a national sample of 12- to 17-year-old adolescents on selected items of the National Center for Health Statistics' Health Examination Survey. Thirty survey items indicating social…

This paper discusses the concept of equality and its role in the politics and economics of distributing social goods, costs, authority, and value. Specifically addressed is the question of who is to be made equal to whom. Various definitions to be considered in answering this question are examined: (1) simple subject-regarding equality; (2)…

This study sought to determine the factors associated with the effectiveness of the nutrition education program among economically disadvantaged youth of St. Landry Parish, La. Sex, race, and age differences were found relative to food consumption. Farm youth and those with gardens tended to have a better diet. (Author/DM)

That sexual differentiation and racial differentiation in the occupational structure does not vary substantially across U.S. metropolitan areas is a conclusion of this study. (Author/AM)

Assessed effects of gender, race, and social class on general and area-specific self-esteem of high school students (N=195). Results indicated that females, Whites, and lower-class adolescents were consistently lower in their self-esteem scores than were males, Blacks, and upper-social-class teenagers, respectively. (Author/NRB)

Examined the relative impact of three dimensions on birth timing: historical time, individual or couple time, and socioeconomic background characteristics, utilizing a birth-interval approach. Findings include a strong impact of individual time in all cases, a significant impact of historical time for whites but not blacks, and a greater impact of…

Examined rates, demographic correlates, and differential symptomatic expression as a function of gender of affective disorders and depression. Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS) and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) scores from 298 adults revealed significant correlations between occupation and current primary unipolar depression on DIS, and…

Responses from 125 Black and 130 White children identified three subdimensions (personality characteristics, affective relations, physical abilities) in an index measuring children's perceptions of aging. Findings indicated that children did not differ significantly by race or age on any of the three dimensions. (NRB)

This brief updates a longitudinal study comparing the arrest records of abused and neglected children with arrest records of non-abused or neglected children. Subjects included 908 substantiated cases of childhood abuse or neglect processed by the courts from 1967-71 who were matched by sex, age, race, and family socioeconomic status with 667…