The assumptions underlying the mass survey and student-based analyses supporting the widespread generalization that higher levels of education have positive impact on political behaviors and attitudes are challenged. Factors predating college attendance may be important in explaining political differences among populations of college-educated and…

Refutes O'Connor's argument for replacing humanities education with an emphasis on science and mathematics (see "Two Concepts of Education," p. 137, this issue). Concludes that the humanities deserve as serious a place in popular education as the sciences; both emphases form society and its purposes. (Author/KC)

Studied directives which mothers and fathers addressed to their preschool children. Fathers produced more directives than mothers and tended to phrase them as imperatives. No differences were found in parental directives to girls and boys. Thus, children appear to learn to request action in sex-associated ways through parental modeling. (GC)

The formal curriculum has a counterpart "hidden curriculum" of values and behavior, which is taught implicitly by the social systems of the school. Recent ecological studies have revealed the operations of school social systems in sufficient detail to suggest implications for the socialization of students and academic learning.…

Assertive discipline is an inappropriate classroom management method. To determine the necessary nature and amount of classroom control, analysis of the aims of education and of the growing body of child development and social psychology theories and research is necessary. (CJ)

Delinquent (N=50) and nondelinquent (N=50) members of peer groups were rated by group workers in relation to their rule-violating behavior in group activities. Found delinquents violated rules more often, reacted more aggressively to rule violations of others, and denied their responsibility for rule violations more often. (Author)

Redefines the role of family therapy in terms of the reemergence of the medical model in psychiatry. In this biopsychosocial model the goal of family therapy is defined as the achievement of socialization. Describes the goals of psychotherapy, sociotherapy, and biotherapy and suggests they are combined in family therapy. (Author/JAC)

Describes and assesses the contributions of Marxist political theorist Antonio Gramsci to developing a meaningful theory relating political education to equality. Identifies Gramsci's major contribution as the substitution of the notion of an ambiguous common sense for false consciousness. (Author/DB)

Social workers are often frustrated by the unwillingness of Russian immigrants to discuss personal problems with those other than family and friends. A practice model based on socialization theory may be useful for dealing with Russians as well as with other culturally different client populations. (Author/GC)

Using data from a random sample of currently married adults (N=316), log-linear techniques were used to examine five aspects of household division of labor between husbands and wives as these relate to sex of respondent, labor-force status of the wife, and other independent variables. (Author)

This study compared Israeli adolescents of Eastern (African-Asiatic) and Western (European-American) descent. Results confirmed the hypothesis that more internal locus of control (LOC) orientation and more relativistic moral judgment would be associated with Western patterns of socialization. No within-group relationship between LOC and moral…

Examines the historical role of American schools as instruments of Americanization and assimilation processes. Traces the origins of cultural pluralism and discusses its implications for minority education. (SK)

Tested relationships between parent-offspring concordance on educational goals and variables which might be expected to facilitate parental influence using data from sixth-, eighth-, and tenth-grade students and their parents. Findings indicated concordance is strongly related to the accuracy of offspring perceptions of parents' goals. (Author)

Three approaches to encouraging interactions between severely handicapped and nonhandicapped students in integrated classrooms are cited: designing and organizing the classroom, training socialization skills to the severely retarded, and training nonhandicapped students to interact with severely retarded students. Research on each is reviewed.…

Proposes that educators abandon the Educational Psychology Paradigm which regards human behavior as phenomena without purpose and explore the Social Paradigm which studies people as human beings. Four basic features of the Social Paradigm are explored and, their meaning for an ethical approach to an educator's professional life are appraised. (RM)