Since most sociology majors do not enter graduate school, how might their training be made more vital? Relevant data, by way of a mailed questionnaire, were acquired from agencies in two metropolitan counties. The findings indicated that different agency structures and types tended to influence training recommendations. (Author)

Hypotheses asserted that: social class has a different association with the meanings of the student identity; meaning of student identity in combination with social class have differential relations with school orientations; presence and absence of student identity in combination with class background have differential relations with school…

Three hypotheses were tested. (1) The test results come from a scalable universe. (2) The data from the two sections come from the same scalable universe. (3) A confirmation of the second hypothesis does not insure that the actual performance levels come from the same universe. (Author)

The author concludes that the present attack on the educational establishment is an attack on middle class values or the imperfections of the system. He argues that the laws of learning seem not to be different today. And that the "non cause", as described, does not yet have empirical validity. (Author)

In the present exploratory study efforts center around three basic foci: (1) A description of how different outlooks relate to the severity of urban disorders; (2) A comparison of these patterns in terms of their consistency; and (3) A comparison of beliefs about the crisis' future and some objective social conditions. (Author)

The study is exploratory and it investigates the distribution of the student role identity in two classroom instructional situations and in two standard research situations. The findings point to some stable distributions of the student identity. (Author)

The findings in the present study show that an understanding of subject matter tends to be more important than the forms which academic interrogation may take. Hence a solution to the problem of cultural bias seems to relate to remedial academic skills. (Author)