Personality characteristics of the middle-class high school drug user

1971 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary G. Green ◽  
Brian F. Blake ◽  
John J. Carboy ◽  
Robert J. Zenhausern
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Drug User ◽  
Personality Characteristics

Reconceptualizing College Knowledge: Class, Race, and Black Students in a College-Counseling Field

2021 ◽  
pp. 003804072110460
Author(s):  
Melanie Jones Gast
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
College Access ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
College Counseling ◽  
College Knowledge ◽  
High School Counseling ◽  
College Going ◽  
Knowledge Class

Past work and college–access programs often treat college knowledge as discrete pieces of information and focus on the amount of available college information. I use ethnographic and multiwave interview data to compare college–aspiring working- and middle–class black 9th and 11th graders across almost two years in high school along with their post–high school updates. Respondents were exposed to college–going messages but faced racial constraints and unclear expectations for college preparation and help seeking. Working-class respondents drew on hopeful uncertainty—a repertoire of hope for college admissions but uncertainty in the specifics—and they waited for assistance. Twelfth-grade working–class respondents experienced the effects of counseling problems and frustrations near application time. Middle-class and some working–class respondents used a repertoire of competitive groundwork to improve their competitiveness for four–year admissions, targeting their help seeking to navigate impending deadlines and late–stage counseling problems. My findings point to the timing and process of activating repertoires of college knowledge within a high school counseling field, suggesting the need to reconceptualize college knowledge in research on racial and class inequality in college access.

scholarly journals Lebanese Students’ Attitudes toward English: An Exploratory Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Ghada M. Chehimi
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
English Language ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Lower Middle Class ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Selection Of

This is a study of high school students’ attitudes toward the English language in Lebanon. The purpose of this research is to assess the extent of use of English inside and outside the schools taking into consideration the attitude towards the language. Two schools were selected, one upper middle class and one lower middle class. This selection of different social classes aims at finding whether a student’s socio- economical background affects his/ her attitude toward the English language. The sample of respondents returned 52 questionnaires from the two schools. Although this sample was a modest one, it highlighted the differences in attitudes towards the English language, but these attitudes did not relate much to the socioeconomic class as much as personal preferences. However, what was salient in this research is how students from the lower middle class were more inclined to use English to raise their social status and both groups agreed that English is essential to their progress in life.

Education and State-Sanctioned Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Melvin Delgado
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Career Success ◽  
Extended Period ◽  
High School Diploma ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Developmental Phases

The importance of education in a democracy can be measured from multiple perspectives, with those failing representing an opportunity lost with immediate and long-term ramifications. In global and technologically driven economies, education has ascended in significance to a point where a high school diploma is no longer a ticket to the middle class. Public education is a linchpin in the ultimate career success of students, with much expected of a system occupying such a prominent and extended period in their lives, daily and during key developmental phases. This chapter covers the usual urban public education and communities of color terrain. However, two pipelines will draw particular attention—school-to-prison and school-to-military—with an extension to include prison, too, highlighting state-sanctioned violence.

Gendered Perceptions of Talent and Planned Participation in Mathematics

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 43-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Watt ◽  
Laurel Bornholt
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Government Schools ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
Mathematics Courses ◽  
School Certificate ◽  
Mathematics Test ◽  
Determining Factor

An investigation of students’ perceptions of talent in relation to mathematics showed that gender stereotyped perceptions of talent were a determining factor in their planned mathematics courses in senior high school. Furthermore perception of talent affected students’ intended careers which also revealed gender imbalances in participation according to the level of mathematics required, as rated by six senior teacher educators from two universities in Sydney. The Year 10 students in Advanced and Intermediate courses were from coeducational government schools in an upper middle-class metropolitan area of Sydney. Actual performance on a standardised mathematics test was used to measure students’ achievement, and perception of talent and predicted mathematics participation were ascertained through use of a questionnaire. Despite similar performance on the test, boys perceived themselves as more talented than girls, and also planned to participate in the higher levels of mathematics more than girls, both in the Higher School Certificate and their intended career.

Middle Class Drug Abuse and Jewish Youth

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 318-321 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Leffler
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Drug Abuse ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
High School Graduates ◽  
Drug Abuser ◽  
American Population ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
Jewish Children ◽  
Jewish Youth ◽  
Jewish Families

Statistically, drug abuse is a problem for Jews far in excess of their percentage among the American population. The author would posit three reasons for this. The vast majority of American Jewry lives in the major megalopolis areas of this country, and so are overly susceptible to this malady. A second reason is that the middle class drug abuser comes from an upward mobile, socio-economic family, one in which the father has been too busy making a living to pay much attention to the children and in which the mother is overly involved in outside activities that enhance her status in the community. Many Jewish families fit this description. And a third reason is that the middle class drug abuser is college bound in high school. And since over 80% of Jewish high school graduates are college bound, here again Jewish children are overly susceptible to drug abuse. These three factors have been overlooked by most researchers.

Video Game Players: Personality Characteristics and Demographic Variables

1984 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 271-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert F. McClure ◽  
F. Gary Mears
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Video Game ◽  
Young Male ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Video Game Playing ◽  
Game Players ◽  
Competitive Activities

This study examined some personality characteristics and demographic variables of frequent video game users. A survey of video-game-playing attitudes, personality characteristics, and entertainment choices of high school teenagers was made. Frequent video-game players were young, male, and liked competitive activities, such as playing sports. They were bright and liked challenges and science fiction movies. Infrequent players tended to be older, female, not as bright and to like noncompetitive activities. These infrequent players did not like video games, were anxious about computers, and did not read very many books.

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