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A Critique of Personality Approaches to Negro Performance, With Research Suggestions *

A Critique of Personality Approaches to Negro Performance, With Research Suggestions * Irwin Katz University of Michigan Elsewhere I have briefly catalogued the better-known hypotheses about socialization and personality factors in the academic failure of Negro youth (Katz, 1967). T h e purpose of this paper is to evaluate the empirical and theoretical status of these and other hypotheses about personality and performance and to suggest some promising directions for research. Cultural Deprivation Hypotheses Inadequacy of Early Socialization Some writers, particularly those who are psychoanalytically oriented, attribute the disadvantaged pupil’s learning difficulties to a basic failure of the socialization process in the home. According to these authors, early childhood experiences in poverty environments create enduring personality formations that are inimical to effective achievement striving not only in the classroom but, indeed, in virtually all areas of life. Thus Ausubel and Ausubel (1 963) stress two features of child-rearing which they assume to be typical of low-income Negro *This paper is based on a report that was prepared under contract with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. IRWIN KATZ families. One is a harsh authoritarianism of parents, who emphasize punitive forms of control and place considerable social and emotional distance between themselves and their children. The other feature http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Social Issues Wiley

A Critique of Personality Approaches to Negro Performance, With Research Suggestions *

Katz, Irwin
Journal of Social Issues , Volume 25 (3) – Jul 1, 1969
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Wiley
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1969 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
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0022-4537
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1540-4560
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10.1111/j.1540-4560.1969.tb00604.x
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Irwin Katz University of Michigan Elsewhere I have briefly catalogued the better-known hypotheses about socialization and personality factors in the academic failure of Negro youth (Katz, 1967). T h e purpose of this paper is to evaluate the empirical and theoretical status of these and other hypotheses about personality and performance and to suggest some promising directions for research. Cultural Deprivation Hypotheses Inadequacy of Early Socialization Some writers, particularly those who are psychoanalytically oriented, attribute the disadvantaged pupil’s learning difficulties to a basic failure of the socialization process in the home. According to these authors, early childhood experiences in poverty environments create enduring personality formations that are inimical to effective achievement striving not only in the classroom but, indeed, in virtually all areas of life. Thus Ausubel and Ausubel (1 963) stress two features of child-rearing which they assume to be typical of low-income Negro *This paper is based on a report that was prepared under contract with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. IRWIN KATZ families. One is a harsh authoritarianism of parents, who emphasize punitive forms of control and place considerable social and emotional distance between themselves and their children. The other feature

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Published: Jul 1, 1969

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