Word: middleclass
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Duke University students in Durham, N.C., recently demonstrated on behalf of the university's maintenance employees, most of them Negro, who struck for the right to bargain collectively. "To see these middleclass, Southern white kids treating semiliterate Negro maids and janitors with dignity and respect, without any condescension, is heartening," says Faculty Member Samuel Cook. "They're not only breaking the color barrier, but the class and educational barriers." In San Francisco, 150 Bay area physicians and health workers have organized as the Medical Committee for Human Rights to mediate between the Black Panthers, one of the more...
...responsibility, personal hygiene. So they often try to impose their own North American structures--the mothers club, the Boy Scout troop--onto communities which have for generations been highly structured according to their own culture. They try to impose the idea of civic loyalty that one finds in stable middleclass American towns onto rapidly growing Latin cities that are both poor and politically complex...
...College Board Official W. H. Manning argues that this merely "reveals the extent to which the disadvantaged person is cheated in his education." Any cultural bias in the exams, the testers add, reflects the fact that college instruction and grading are also biased in favor of students with a middleclass style of verbal ability. Sociologist David A. Goslin of the Russell Sage Foundation argues that reliance on vocabulary skills should not be considered an evil in itself. "If facility with the English language is necessary for success in our society," he says, "then a test of verbal ability in English...
...others, who make occasional use of the building and include a variety of interesting upper middleclass students, usually consider the final club worthwhile despite the dues. The simple truth is, however, that the clubs belong to a different Harvard era, and they are barely changing at a time when the College's student body has changed significantly in just a few years. The clubs must either open up their membership more, or else withdraw further than they are at the present...
There and then, Dr. Hartogs decided that he had stumbled on "a significant clue to the psychodynamics of our culture." According to his theory, the Chatterley decision set Vassar girls to start cussing like gamekeepers. Clearly, he met few Vassar girls before the decision. But now he hears from middleclass patients what he once heard only from ghetto types such as those he encounters as chief psychiatrist of the New York Detention House for Juvenile Delinquents...