This study examined the ethnic climate and relationships between ethnic groups at 5 colleges. Data indicate that White and Latino students were the most comfortable interacting with other ethnic groups, whereas Asians students were the least comfortable. Furthermore, White students had a relatively positive view of the interracial climate in contrast to Black students who described their campuses as more hostile and uninviting.
This study focused on the power relationship in 80 married couples selected to vary by race (40 black, 40 white) and class (40 middle class, 40 working class). Marital power was measured by three tasks: a questionnaire, which couples first filled out individually, then jointly; a discussion, in which couples attempted to arrive at a joint statement about two topics; and a bargaining situation, which required couples to bargain over four items imported from Africa. The results indicated that working-class husbands were significantly more powerful than middle-class husbands in the questionnaire situation. No other important racial or class differences were found.Research on the black family in the United States has been dominated by the hypothesis that it is a matriarchal one, or one in which the husband is subordinated to the wife. This is in contrast to the white family that is viewed as having either an equalitarian family structure or one in which the wife is subordinated to the husband (Davis, Gardner, & Gardner, 1941). In the black family, however, the female rather than the male is viewed as the powerful, controlling figure. Sociologists contend that the black male plays only a peripheral role in family life. Drake and Cayton (194S) spoke of dependent men and forceful women. They described how both husband and child look to the female for steady support. Clark (196S) also contended that female job support leads to an unfortunate female dominance in the black family. Bernard (1966) went so far as to discuss the issue under the title "The unnatural superiority of the Negro woman." She did argue, however, that a more important factor than the wife's working to contribute to family support is the context in 1 This study is based on a doctoral dissertation in psychology completed at Stanford University in 1969. The advice and support of the author's adviser, P. James Geiwitz, and other members of her committee, Leonard M. Horowitz and John W.
This study describes and evaluates the first two years of a student counseling center in a Nigerian university. The study revealed that the counseling center was hampered by lack of space, lack of staff, and by the ignorance and suspicions of students and lecturers. The study also indicated that there was a great need to investigate various parameters of the counseling situation to determine their effects in the Nigerian milieu.
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