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Language
English (en)
Date of Award
6-1962
Degree Type
Restricted Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Social Work (DSW)
Abstract
The research focused on teachers' judgments of the functioning of children for whom they have professional responsibility and on teachers' judgments of the need for outside help for or about any child. Evaluative judgments were thought of as varying in part with inferences about the meaning of observed behavior in relation to the group to which the observer referred the person being judged. Sex, race, and social class of the child were hypothesized as being among the groups which are sources of different expectations of behavior. It was further hypothesized that the effects of social class on judgments were related to perceived differences from others in the same classroom, with, for example, the lower class child in the middle class classroom more likely to be seen as functioning poorly than the lower class child in the largely lower class classroom. The writer further proposed that lower class in children in predominantly lower class classrooms are judged in relation to norms which are a "compromise" between the school's formally middle class norms and the norms of the lower class school population.
Recommended Citation
Turner, Virginia Holmes, "Teachers' Judgments of Children's Functioning, By Sex and Social Class of Child, in Classrooms of Different Social Class and Racial Composition" (1962). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 36.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/etd_restrict/36
Comments
Permanent URL at https://doi.org/10.7936/K76Q1VNK. Print version available in library catalog at http://catalog.wustl.edu:80/record=b1691679~S2. Call #: LD5791.8 DSW62 T858.