A Comparative Study of the Classification Techniques of Warner and Centers

common ideas about these two historically different middle classes. One might then hypothesize that U. S. II evidences anxiety which accompanies actual change or the striving for change which may be associated with unrealistic definitions of existing opportunities for upward mobility, and that English II is not affected to the same degree by anxiety associated with mobility. English II appears to be the most stable of the three English social-class groups and reveals significantly less anxiety than does U. S. II. The question of the relationship of expressed anxiety in both national samples to normal and abnormal behavior can not be dealt with in this brief paper. As has been suggested, however, the greater amount of anxiety in the U. S. sample may be proportional to the greater institutional demands of our society, as defined by the respondents, and therefore represent adjustive anxiety. Thus it may be that the amount of anxiety expressed in each nationality group approximates the amount required by their respective cultures for adaptation of the individual and therefore may not imply pathology in either group. It is admitted that these findings and the postulated implications are tenuous, but they may lead to the formulation of hypotheses which can be dealt with by more sophisticated methods, and, it is hoped, with more certainty

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