This paper sets forth a model of the school as a social organization within an institutional framework and relates its organizational characteristics to its age- grade structure." (Author)

Discusses relationships between parental authority patterns by which children are influenced and the development of socially responsible and independent behavior in young children (especially girls). (NH)

Professionalism has grown into elitism, often using cultural conformity as its yardstick rather than pure scholarship or skill. (Editor)

The hypothesis that, when occupationally based pressure for transformation of identity is greatest, there will be a weakening of kinship solidarity, was tested on a comparable sample of American and Japanese students. Findings supported the hypothesis for the American sample but not for the Japanese sample. (Author)

Hypothesizes that children's behavior will be more greatly affected by a live deviant model than by information about deviant behavior, and that if both models are presented, the effect will be additive. Results supported the hypotheses. Bibliography, tables, and graph. (JB)

Provides a replication of a study by Bandura and McDonald concerning Piaget's theory. Though results approximated those of the previous study, the theoretical conclusions are dissimilar. Bibliography, tables, and graphs. (JB)

Argues that concepts of the elementary school principalship as essentially a role couched in the vagaries of administrative and instructional leadership seems to be questionable under the scrutiny of research. (RJ)

Predicted that an external locus of control would characterize undersocialization. Tested this hypothesis on a random sample of secondary school children (N=97). Scores from the Child Nowicki-Strickland Internal-External Scale were found to predict undersocialization in the expected direction. Suggested several possible interpretations of this…

The 1981 French elections mark a political watershed, demonstrating that women voters have moved from political passivity to activism, both in use of voting rights and in legislative participation. A variety of demographic, social, and political changes have contributed to this changing political consciousness. (MSE)

This essay draws together various ideas on education that appear in the works of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and demonstrates how these ideas relate to Hegel's total philosophy. Education, by retracing the path of the mind's self-realization, raises the individual's subjective consciousness to recognition of the rationality underlying social…

Based upon observations of two preschool settings, argues that such environments are often adult-oriented and are alienating for children. Attributes problems in day care settings to their modeling on the bureaucratic organization of the corporate state, in which productivity, conformity, and docility are seen as desirable. (Author/GC)

In research on sex role attitudes, career choices, and considered appropriateness of men and women participating in 14 sex-stereotyped occupations, children demonstrated nonstereotypic attitudes toward the 14 occupations, chose traditional careers (those dominated by the subject's sex) for themselves, and gave stereotypic reasons for preferring…