Attitudes Toward Self; An Experimental Study

Abstract

This article results from an attempt to investigate the effect of an organized study of social class structure upon various attitudes of high school students. The organized study of social class was built around the booklet, What You Should Know About Social Class by W. Lloyd and Mildred Hall Warner.2 Involved in the study were an experimental and comparable control group at the ninth, tenth, and twelfth grade levels. Each group consisted of approximately thirty students. The experimental and control groups at the various grade levels were matched and were not significantly different in (1) scores made on the Index of Status Charac