Demonstrates how differences in social class affect personality. This book presents research in class character covering a broad range of phenomena in the area shared by psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and anthropology. It also explores the relationship between personality and social status.

Introduction; 1: A Comparison of the Chicago and Harvard Studies of Social Class Differences in Child Rearing; 2: Social Class, Child Rearing Practices, and Child Behavior; 3: A Study Of Relationships between Child Rearing Attitudes and Maternal Behavior; 4: The Deferred Gratification Pattern: A Preliminary Study; 5: The Working Class Subculture: A New View; 6: Some Aspects of Lower Class Sexual Behavior; 7: Social Class and the Psychiatric Patient: A Study in Composite Character; 8: Social Class, Occupation, and Parental Values: A Cross-National Study