Racial and social class differences in teen‐agers’ use of television

Abstract

Much of this issue of the Journal is devoted to questions of the mass communications behavior of the poor. In the following article, the influence of both race and class upon teen‐agers’ use of television is investigated as part of an extensive series of researches on communication among the urban poor being conducted at Michigan State University. The research reported on below was supported in part by a grant from the National Association of Broadcasters to Dr. Greenberg, associate professor of communication at Michigan State. Mr. Dominick is senior research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the MSU Department of Communication.