The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of the intragroup relations between the middle-status adolescents in a student group and the other status categories. It is assumed that the social and psychological portrait of an open adolescent student group, the character of the orientation and the level of its development, and the…

Sociometric technique was used to study group dynamics among adult teachers and adult learners in a functional literacy program in order to determine class leadership. The study was undertaken to locate the group structure of students based on perceived best student, intelligence, popularity, and leadership. Four sociograms depict the…

Increased United States involvement in world affairs has been accompanied by an increase in the number of Americans living abroad in numerous American enclaves. Most of the commentary on such "overseas American communities" is impressionistic, superficial, and stereotyped, and tends to foster the notion that Americans are peculiarly ethnocentric.…