The purpose ofthis study was to compare the perceptual concerns of four segments of the middle-school community regarding eight topics felt to be important to a contemporary middle-school social studies program. These segments consisted of parents, students, teachers, and administrators. The Social Studies Opinion Survey (SSOS) was the instrument used to gather the data. The SSOS contained eight topics that dominated the social studies literature, in addition to descriptive statistics, the association between the four groups was examined using one-way MANOVA where group served as the independent variable, and the eight subscales served as the dependent variables. Various levels of significance were found among the four segments of the middle-school community and the selected topics. However, all groups ranked law, drugs/alcohol and career education ranked highest with multicultural education given the lowest priority. Significant differences were revealed in all segments except multicultural education.
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