Hypotheses regarding the effect of socioeconomic status on the structure of the families of schizophrenics were tested. The Ss were unmarried male paranoid schizophrenics and a control group of non-psychiatric medical-surgical patients. The Elias Family Opinion Survey, a paper-and-pencil projective technique, and the Family Attitude Scale, a TAT-like projective technique specifically devised for this research, were employed. The characteristics of the family constellation of schizophrenics which appeared was similar to that derived from previous research. However, this configuration was seen to be descriptive primarily of schizophrenic patients from a middle-class environment. 22 refs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)