Describes socializing roles performed by American colleges after 1700, when the family shed its traditional role due to geographical mobility, cultural and political squabbles, religious declension, and family reorientation. (Author/DB)

Describes the development of social studies and the need to establish its place in the educational curriculum. (RK)

Presents minutes of a discussion meeting held by Shanghai university students to describe and evaluate an agricultural and technical correspondence program in which they had taken part. Ways of relating the correspondence courses to the needs of a socialist economy are suggested. (Author/DB)

Asserts that power relations in all societies are partially defined by who has access to and knowledge of the component cultures in complex, multi-cultural societies. "As multi-culturalism becomes more pronounced and elaborated, and the field of power becomes greater with increasing social complexity, multi-culturalism becomes an ever more serious…

Suggests that many educational changes have potentially significant implications for the extent and direction of political socialization fostered by the schools. Discusses some of the alternative impacts these changes may have on the politicization occurring in the community, and suggests that this situation presents unique research opportunities.…

This article describes a program to train student teachers to work in inner-city schools and the conflicts that arose when student teachers, attempting new innovations with their pupils, met strong resistance from the established conservatism of the school principal and older teachers. (JD)

If we make the assumption that the social studies convey major learning processes that affect the learner in all his aspects, then more should be done to achieve such objectives. The authors examine current thought on types of behavior and point to some important problems. (Editor)

Suggests that schools differentially socialize children to respond to authority so as to be competent in adult work roles similar to those currently held by their parents. (Author/AM)

Measures of racial attitude, conceptual style, commitment to candidate and electoral process, social-political evaluation, and voting intentions, were administered to white college students (N=320) before the 1972 Presidential election. Prediction of behavioral intentions becomes more powerful as attitudinal measures are made more directly…

The effects of television on young viewers has assumed immense importance due to the central role of viewing in the lives of children. Examines the results of an in-depth exposure of young children to television viewing. (Author/RK)

Where other articles are primarily concerned with the socializing function of education, here the author argues that education also allocates and legitimizes political and economic participation in society. Suggests that nonformal education, in contradistinction to schools, is not likely to be able to offer a legitimate mobility route to…

Describes a college course focussing on the political, social, and economic ramifications of American spectator sports. (DD)

Recent trends in universities in the German Federal Republic are reviewed with special reference to the norms, values, and attitudes of university teachers. Recruits to the profession tend to conform to traditional values and ideas about the university, which has implications for the importance given to teaching. (Author/LBH)

States that schools are backing away from the teaching of primary socialization and argues a case for ritual within the school. Available from: Australian College of Education, 916 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia, $2.50 single copy. (Author/MLF)

Describes a research project based upon a model of the university as a political system. A two-step causal sequence is hypothesized, with students' negative perceptions of the university environment generating feelings of academic alienation, which in turn foster a desire for academic reform. Results are considered in terms of the university as an…