The lower classes not uncommonly teach their children and adolescents to strike out with fist or knife and to be certain to hit first.^ Both girls and boys at adolescence may curse their father to his face or even attack him with fists, sticks, or axes... Bulletin - Page 43by United States. Office of Education - 1963Full view - About this book
| United States. Office of Education - 1963 - 396 pages
...them to school. They need to learn, as Oscar Lewis so movingly documents in The Children of Sancl,ez, that the "culture of poverty" is not just economic...lowerclass children do not accept or engage in violence indiscriminatelj. Lesser found that among a group of lower-class fifth- and sixth-grade children in... | |
| Edward C. Banfield - 1974 - 396 pages
...is also sanctioned — often inculcated — by lower-class culture. The lower classes not uncommonly teach their children and adolescents to strike out...with fist or knife and to be certain to hit first. Both girls and boys at adolescence may curse their father to his face or even attack him with fists,... | |
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