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Questionnaires were administered to 70 black female, 75 black male, 1,457 white female and 1,429 white male university freshmen. In order to test three alternative theories regarding perceptions of discrimination, analyses of variance related sex, race, and SES to total scores of perceived occupational discrimination against blacks (BDST) and against women (WDST) . Blacks perceived significantly more discrimination against black people than did whites: neither sex nor SES differentiated scores on BDST. Black

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Rainwater's assertion that blacks have low self‐evaluations because they receive more negative evaluations from other blacks than whites receive from other whites is challenged here by reference to Heiss and Owens evidence that negative self evaluation among blacks is limited to work‐related traits. Substantial support was found for our major hypotheses that, compared to whites, (1) blacks would report more negative evaluation of “most men” but not of “most women” (since the provider role is traditionally ascribed primarily to men), and (2) the more negative evaluation of “most men” by blacks would be limited to work‐related traits.

The administrators of 92 nursing homes and rest homes in western Massachusetts were surveyed on their experiences with elderly residents with a history of psychiatric hospitalization and their willingness to admit such individuals in the future. A majority of those who had admitted deinstitutionalized elders with chronic psychiatric disorders reported having experienced severe problems with them. Most of the problems involved the resident going into crisis or producing some highly disruptive behavior. Although two-thirds of the facilities had admitted elders who had been deinstitutionalized from a public psychiatric hospital, only one-quarter clearly planned to do so in the future. Three quarters of the administrators reported that they did not have the support services that the deinstitutionalized elders in their facilities needed. A comparison of the services reported to be important and those reported to be available suggest that simply increasing the availability of psychiatric support services would probably not influence administrators to admit elders with chronic mental illness in the future.

The purpose of this study was to modify Heiss and Owens's (1972) formulation on trait differences in the self‐evaluations of blacks and whites and integrate it with the literature on sex role socialization, thereby elaborating the instrumental‐expressive dichotomy they proposed so as to generate and test hypotheses regarding race, gender, and SES differences in self‐evaluations. University students rated themselves on a fifteen‐item semantic differential scale. A principal component factor analysis with varimax rotations yielded five factors, three of the factors were seen as private‐domain, one as public‐domain, and one as mixed. A series of 2X2X2 ANOVAS indicated that (1) on the public‐domain factor, black females rated themselves more positively than did the white females, while black males and white males did not differ; (2) blacks rated themselves more positively than did whites on two private‐domain factors; (3) white females rated themselves more positively than did males on the private‐domain factor indicative of a feminine stereotype; and (4) SES differences appeared on the private‐domain factors in particular.