Five-year follow-up study of recidivism of male graduates from adult boot camp examined the competing theories in predicting recidivism among these males. Findings indicated that elements of social learning theory are among the strongest predictors of recidivism. Differential peer association and normative definitions are the two top predictors.…

Explores relationships between ethics and individual and societal development in psychologist Baldwin's work, focusing on how he extended evolutionary theory to encompass social and ethical development. Asserts that Baldwin tried to demonstrate a natural developmental process leading toward truth, beauty, the Good, and God; that developmental…

Based on fieldwork from 1995-2002, this paper explores how students in Provincetown, Massachusetts developed a culture of resistance to dominant discourses of tolerance and acceptance. By deconstructing how schools are sites of intergroup conflicts over gender tolerance and public school ownership, student resistance conduct is shown to be a…

The hidden curriculum of industrial education is the culture of the industrial workplace. Socialization into unions and accepted workplace behaviors are a product of racial, class-bound, and gendered assumptions in a male culture of work and must be taken into account by industrial educators. (SK)

Presents a family systems perspective on wife battering and treatment implications for mental health counselors. Focuses on the processes and interrelatedness between events and people in a battering relationship. Discusses some of salient literature on wife battering from an individual perspective and suggests that future models and theories…

Analysis of data from 194 employed mothers and 104 employed fathers, each with an employed spouse and a three- to four-year-old child, suggested that men's and women's degree of investment in parenting is more consequential for their socialization practices and views of their children than is their degree of investment in work. (RH)

Observed 62 children, 4- and 5-years-old, to determine the relation between negotiation and enactment in social pretend play and to indices of social acceptance and cognition. Negotiation and enactment were positively correlated and predicted peer social acceptance. Enactment predicted peer acceptance independent of negotiation. (RJC)

Uses "turning point" analysis to examine participants' accounts of change in the individual-organizational relationship. Compares results from this analysis with conceptualizations of socialization and identification. (MM)

Discussion of educational technology focuses on the need for critical theory, including its cross-disciplinary aspects and sociopolitical beliefs and practices; the importance of criticism for educational technology, including questions of ethics and discourse; and recognizing contradictions. (Contains four references.) (LRW)

Over a 100-day period, 6 children between 9 and 21 months were videotaped interacting with their mothers while the children were learning to walk, eat, and dress themselves. Found that mothers supported dependent behavior before tasks were begun; dependent and independent behavior when children were learning tasks; and neither dependent nor…

Responses from 343 of 496 business/engineering graduates revealed different patterns of acquisition of information about their new job setting. The 105 who had mentors relied on observation and their mentors, the others on observation and co-workers. Mentored workers learned more about organizational issues and practices. (SK)

Among 141 activists with varying levels of participation in the sanctuary movement, biographical availability factors--younger age and greater discretionary time--best predict high-cost activism (more hours devoted to the movement), whereas ideological socialization factors best predict high-risk activism (direct contact with refugees). Contains…

Focuses on the role of religion as an agent of socialization for African Americans, with educational attainment examined as the outcome. Study of 921 Black adults indicates that religious socialization is positively related to educational attainment. (JB)

Social learning theory formed the basis of a program to develop self-management skills in cystic fibrosis patients. Strategies for practical learning activities for patients and their families included goal setting, reinforcement, modeling, skill training, and self-monitoring. (SK)

Measured the amount of copy devoted to appearance, home, male-female relations, and self-development in "Seventeen" magazine in 1961, 1972, and 1985. Male-female relations decreased, and self-development increased in 1972, at the height of the women's movement, but by 1985 coverage had reverted to the 1961 proportions. (DM)