CONTENTS 
Preface 
Part 1. THEORETICAL VANTAGE POINTS 
Chapter 1. Neutralizing the Disinherited: Some Psychologi- 
cal Aspects of Understanding the Poor. 
Lee Rainwater 
Chapter 2. The Culture of Poverty, Social Identity, and Cog- 
, nitive Outcomes. Theodore R. Sarbin 29 
Chapter 3. Poverty versus Equality of Opportunity. 
J. McV. Hunt 
Part 2. SOCIALIZATION AND LEARNING 
Chapter 4. The Transmission of Cognitive Strategies in Poor 
Families: The Socialization of Apathy and Under- 
achievement. Robert D. Hess 
Chapter 5. A New Approach to the Study of School Motiva- 
tion in Minority Group Children. Irwin Katz 93 
Chapter 6. Learning Ability, Intelligence, and Educability. 
Arthur R. Jensen 
Part 3. HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT 
Chapter 7. A “Try Simplest Cases” Approach to the Heredity- 
Poverty-Crime Problem. William Shockley 141 
Chapter 8. Do Genetic Factors Contribute to Poverty? 
James F. Crow 147 
Chapter 9. Genetic Factors in Poverty: A Psychologist’s 
Point of View. Steven G. Vandenberg 161 
Part 4. BEHAVIORAL CONCOMITANTS 177 
Chapter 10. Children of the City: Affluence, Poverty, and 
Mental Health. Thomas S. Langner, Joseph H. 
Herson, Edward L. Greene, Jean D. Jameson, 
Jeanne A. Goff 
The Psychological Costs of Quality and Equality 
in Education. Urie Bronfenbrenner 
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