Addressing the general problem of inferring the causal structure underlying the relationship among deviant behavior, attitudes, and associations, this paper examines four causal structures and seven patterns of deviance (cheating). (Author/JC)

Based upon research conducted aboard a ship, this article substantiates the hypothesis that whether or not homosexuality is excused will depend upon the compatibility of such tolerance with the prevailing terms being used to rationalize the experience of differential power. (Author/JC)

The automatic interaction detector was applied as an evaluation tool to data normally collected by vocational-rehabilitation agencies. Demographic, service, and local agency variables were analyzed with mean weekly income at time of closure as the dependent variable. Recommendations for further research were made. (Author)

Suggests that citizen band radio communication involving code names and coded language offers an opportunity for participation without personal commitment. (MH)

Reports the development of a Verbal Systems Analysis procedure for investigating significant form in verbal communications through a process which operationalizes two of the central concepts of form in Kenneth Burke's theory of symbolic action. (MH)

Described is the SICCS model (Social Interaction and Creativity in Communication System) for systematically analyzing behaviors associated with creativity. (DB)

The Segal Interaction Analysis Scale (SIAS)--a categorization of verbal behaviors--is described and its uses indicated for promoting effective and productive group discussions. (MB)

The author presents a methodological perspective on school and the educational process, viewing it as a dialectical phenomenon affecting both the institution and its participants, and uses the concept of "work" to illustrate the use of this perspective in educational research and evaluation. (MJB)

Each utterance of a psychotherapy session conducted by Carl Rogers was transcribed on a separate card. Fifteen undergraduate subjects reconstituted client-therapist sequences more accurately than therapist-client sequences. (Author)

Uses conversational analysis to investigate how people accomplish a specific enactment of their everyday lives. (MH)

Reports development as compared to age-related changes in maternal task instruction to children in their second year. Interactions of 12 mother-infant pairs involved with simple tasks were video-recorded bimonthly between the infants' 14th and 22nd month. Comparison revealed the superiority of the development-centered model of adaptation of…

Observations of direct-care staff behavior were made for 20 days at various locations in a large state-operated residential facility serving the developmentally disabled. Results demonstrated that five 15-minute weekday observations could provide reliable representative information concerning staff activities. (Author/DB)