| Sumario: | The investigation presented here had four related objectives. The first was to obtain control data for the Chicago and Newton studies, especially on the possibility of different "child-rearing themes" in middle and lower-class households, the second was to determine whether fathers differ from mothers on various aspects of the socialization process, the third was to determine whether there is systematic relationship between social class and sex of parent, and finally, to explore the possibility of regional differences in socialization practices. The subjects were 206 pairs of white parents whose children's names appeared in the pre-school census and school role lists for the City of Eugene, Oregon. Interviews were given in private whenever possible. Usually the interviewer could meet with mothers alone, however, because of the relative difficulty in making appointments with fathers at a time when they would be alone in the house, a higher proportion of fathers were interviewed with wives or someone else present. All data were analyzed with respect to differences between social class by sex of parent.
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