Race and Socio-Economic Status as Factors in the Friendship Choices of Pupils in a Racially Heterogeneous South African School

See Pierre L. van den Berghe , South Africa, A Study in Conflict (Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University Press, 1965), and

H.J. Simons , Social Structure and Power in South Africa (unpublished paper presented to the Africa Seminar, University of Cape Town, 1960).

For example, G.W. Allport , The Nature of Prejudice ( New York, Doubleday and Co., 1958 ), p. 78;

G. Myrdal , An American Dilemma (New York, Harper and Bros.' 1944), pp. 597-8;

see also comment on the South African scene by S. Andreski , The Uses of Comparative Sociology (Berkeley, University of California Press , 1964), pp. 264-5.

Sirty-seven percent of the employed fathers and 74 per cent of the employed mothers of Undersuburb High School pupils were engaged in 'skilled' or 'semi-skilled manual occupations'. A substantial study of the school is being prepared for publication.

The rift between the 'respectable' people and the 'roughs' to some extent parallels that found by Kuper in Coventry. Kuper found patterns of neighbouring, standards of personal cleanliness and of housecare, and forms of speech differed so sharply that he distinguished between the 'respectable' and the 'ordinary' families. See L. Kuper , Living in Towns (London , Cresset, 1953), Ch. 5.