From "Sovetskaia Pedagogika, 1968, No. 4.

Presented at Joint meeting of the American School Health Association and the School Health Section of the American Public Health Association, Detroit, Michigan, November 11, 1968.

A prototype is a theoretical standard against which real people can be evaluated. To derive a prototype of a lonely person, 40 students were asked to describe a lonely person whom they knew. All descriptions were studied by judges who formed a final listing and frequency of all identified features. The 18 features which formed the prototype fell…

Two contrasting predictions regarding the effects of dual- versus single-career marriage on children's sex-role identification were tested: (1) the relative lack of sex-role differentiation in dual-career marriages should promote relatively androgynous sex-role identification in children from such families; and (2) the presence of two…

The present and future of the American family are discussed in a collection of four papers. The first paper, by Mary Jo Bane, identifies trends in demographic and structural features of families, including fertility rates, marriage trends, divorce rates, household headship rates, and the proportion of women in the labor force. Societies' changing…

Critiques and studies have found the traditional two-step flow model of social influence inadequate to describe and explain relationships between interpersonal and mass communications during political campaigns. A study was undertaken to incorporate a wider range of variables pertinent to both kinds of political communication behaviors to redefine…

People's cognitive maps (images of self, beliefs and values, evaluations of relationships with individuals and groups) determine attitudes and behavior, provide the basis for communication, and determine in part their response to events. The cognitive map of an organization performs the same function for groups. Thirty-five newspaper employees…

The history of the first major student revolt in American colleges, which came at the turn of the nineteenth century, is reported in this book. The question of why upper class, Federalist, and socially conservative students became rioters is examined. The rioters are portrayed as a postrevolutionary generation--the Sons of the Founders--who wanted…

The "social maps" of 89 youngsters as they made the transition from sixth to eighth grades (elementary to junior high school) were explored. Data were gathered through interviews with the youngsters in sixth and again in eighth grade. Subjects' mothers were also interviewed at both times. Interviews focused on the child's social network as…

Media dependency was examined as a complex construct involving the interactions of exposure to television news, exposure to newspapers, and expression of reliance on one medium or the other. A weighted sample of 2,402 respondents was used, representing the United States national population in 1976. A questionnaire assessed each subject's political…

There has been considerable interest in incorporating the socialization process--including empathy as a nurse characteristic--into the nursing curriculum. On the other hand, some clients have indicated that they do not see empathy as an important nursing skill. A study was undertaken to assess how sophomores, seniors, and faculty in nursing…

Research assessed the impact of a treatment designed to sensitize college freshman and sophomore women to the effects of sexism and sex role socialization factors on their career planning and to expand their current sex role attitudes and self concepts. College women on a large midwestern campus participated in a four-week career workshop.…

A DESIGNED PROGRAM FOR PRESCHOOL AND KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOT YET LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE WAS DESCRIBED. IT DEALT WITH NUMBER CONCEPTS AND NUMERALS AND USED A MULTIPLE CHOICE PICTORIAL FORMAT. IN THE TYPICAL PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION SITUATION, THE STUDENT READ A FRAME AND MADE A RESPONSE. WHEN HE MADE THE CORRECT RESPONSE, HE WAS INFORMED…

AN INDIVIDUAL MAY RESPOND TO A BICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT IN A VARIETY OF WAYS RANGING FROM TOTAL REJECTION OF WESTERN VALUES, OR PASSIVE WITHDRAWAL FROM EITHER CULTURAL SYSTEM, TO CREATIVE PARTICIPATION IN BOTH CULTURES. TO DETERMINE WHAT EARLY SOCIALIZATION EXPERIENCES MIGHT RESULT IN AN INDIVIDUAL'S SUCCESSFUL, CREATIVE ADJUSTMENT TO A BICULTURAL…

TESTS WERE CONDUCTED TO FIND THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CHILD WHO FEELS THAT HIS ACHIEVEMENT IS A RESULT OF INTERNAL FACTORS AND THE CHILD WHO FEELS THAT HIS ACHIEVEMENT OR LACK OF IT IS A RESULT OF EXTERNAL FACTORS. INTERVIEWS, TESTS, AND OBSERVATIONS PROVIDED DATA FOR THE SUGGESTED RELATIONSHIPS. CHILDREN WHO FEEL ACHIEVEMENT TO BE A RESULT OF…