Describes a project intended to help high school students personalize their school environment. The program emphasizes positive social reinforcement, positive peer pressure, interaction with administrators and teachers regarding school problems and solutions, and peer counseling during homeroom. (DB)

The author describes the socializing process of role modeling and the different experiences of males and females. She defines and analyzes the mentor relationship and its impact on career development, presenting a model of career stages. The lack of mentor relationships for women and possible solutions are also discussed. (Author/ SK)

The author maintains that traditional knowledge and curriculum has been male-centered. Work in women's studies fills in the absence of women's perspectives to create a more fully human knowledge. Adult education's emphasis on learner control can contribute to the construction of woman-centered learning. (SK)

Describes a new instrument designed for brief administration, to be educationally relevant, and to measure five domains of adaptive behavior: language development, independent functioning, family role performance and economic-vocational activity, and socialization. An initial study indicates the instrument has high reliability. (Author)

Discusses the reproduction of gender-related insufficiencies by the organizational assymetry of family structure, whereby children of both sexes are predominantly mother-reared; and current challenges to the traditional, logical positivist paradigm in socialization research by a paradigm more congruent with a concrete, historical, and relational…

Sixty-four university art students identified themselves as "art student,""marginal," or "professional artist" and provided information on age, sex, art and academic experiences, and parental factors. Consistent with the professionalization model of occupational socialization, all these factors, except parents and years of formal art training,…

Lev S. Vygotsky's concepts of social, egocentric, and inner speech are explained, and two of Vygotsky's basic arguments are reviewed: (1) that these forms of speech are dialogic; and (2) that cognitive functioning can be explained by its surrounding social foundations. (GDC)

Occupational socialization refers to the process by which a new member to an occupation becomes acquainted with the culture of the occupational group. Problems related to teacher training are essentially problems related to occupational socialization. (JN)

This study examined how a group of kindergartners anticipated and actually experienced school. Interviewed in July, before starting kindergarten, then again in April, the children were asked to describe their own and the teacher's role, activities they engaged in, and what rules or constraints on child behavior existed. (Author/SJL)

Using attribution theory and social learning theory, a conceptual model explaining how attributional and efficacy questions influence family conflict attitudes and behaviors is presented. The effect of causal attributions on blaming behavior and generalizations is examined. More attention should be paid to individual cognitions in family conflict.…

Suggests basic competencies for civic participation and ways these skills may be taught in the elementary grades. (SJL)

After reviewing the socialization models of Berger and Luckmann, Speier, and Piaget, the author relates the drawing process to these theories as a form of social interaction, citing changes in drawing style and subject matter with gains in social maturity. She concludes with implications for art educators. (SJL)

Examines how an English comprehensive school attempted to offer equal educational opportunity to and reconcile the social differences between children from two different social classes. (Author/IRT)

Behavioral science strategies offer an alternative to bureaucratic and political strategies. The weakness of a bureaucratic or political approach, the professor as social learner and as problem-solving adult, strategies for increasing faculty productivity, and ways for creating a learning institution are discussed. (MLW)

This study identified the process by which sex-typing occurs within the field of medicine. It concludes that acceptance within a profession depends upon establishing a role identity and occupying an organizational space that leads to acquisition of skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for professional role occupancy. (Author/KC)