Two activities designed for use in elementary school group work are described. In Activity I, Pass It On,'' a succession of children repeat a story showing how communication can be distorted when people don't listen. Activity II is designed to demonstrate the similarity of feelings among peers: children complete short stories begun by the leader…

Four identities were explored in terms of salience, frequency, and valence: gender, religion, family, and peer. For both males and females in Latin and Anglo cultures, gender emerged as the most prominent identity. Social and cultural differences between the two cultures were considered as explanations for variations in adolescent identity…

What we can now anticipate is an ethnic renaissance, a rediscovery of America's hidden minorities in education, religion, and social action. (DM)

To identify factors associated with student placement in classes for the educable mentally retarded, comparisons on socioeconomic, behavioral, and achievement variables were made between a group of 17 regular class Ss with IQs less than 80, and three groups of special class Ss. (Author)

A detailed expostion of the ways in which existing variants of black Nationalism can be clarified, broadened and made more useful to goals of the black community, defining as nationalists all groups which can be said to have adopted a serious program devoted to bettering the spiritual and material condition of black life. (Author/JM)

Argues that the traditional black church appears latently able and well-placed to complement the effort of the black family to prepare its young children to be black and proud in a white-dominated society. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether recent social changes and consequent malintegration with regard to sex roles have created stressful repercussions for men as well as for women; nearly one third of the men interviewed experienced some anxiety over their perceived failure to live up to the norm of masculine intellectual…

A multidimensional scaling procedure was used to explore the role of cultural background, language and geographic regions in the process of ethnic identity. (JB)

Aruges that the ethnic factor has always been significant in the social and political life of the United States, and that only the consciousness of ethnicity has become increasingly pervasive and influential. (JM)

The relationship of self concept of ability to performance is discussed, and the need for a measurement device for the self concept of work ability of educable mentally retarded adolescents is identified. (Author)