Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published in 1776, was a significant rhetorical event, having a polarizing effect on a situation marked by confusion and conflicting loyalties, in which prevailing views favored reconciliation of the American colonies with England. Paine's rhetoric intensified the conflict, forcing a cognitive restructuring…

THE AUTHOR PROPOSED THAT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS SHOULD FOCUS UPON POLITICAL RESOCIALIZATION, THAT IS, THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE NEW COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS OF POLITICAL LEARNING. THE CURRENT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION PROCESS SERVES TO REINFORCE TRADITIONAL MIDDLE-CLASS VALUES RATHER THAN TO EXPAND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND…

This study provides a profile of preschool children's leisure time activities and examines (1) whether preschool children's self-concepts are related to leisure time activities and (2) whether parental involvement in the leisure activities of children, including television viewing, are associated with higher levels of self-concept in children. The…

As communities have become increasingly heterogeneous, the congruence between formal education and other socializing institutions has diminished. Nowhere is social discontinuity more visible than in our approach to adolescent education. It is a matter of wide concern that schools are failing to prepare young people for a life of work and social…

A study to assess the information function of pop music in the adolescent socialization process involved approximately 500 students in junior and senior high schools and colleges in a large metropolitan area in the northeast and approximately 400 university undergraduates in an introductory sociology class. In-class, self-administered…

TO ASSIST YOUNG, MENTAL PATIENTS IN OVERCOMING SOME OF THEIR SOCIAL DEFICITS, TWO RESOCIALIZATION PROJECTS (PRE- AND POST-DISCHARGE) WERE INITIATED TO MOVE THE PATIENT FROM A MENTAL HOSPITAL SETTING INTO THE LARGER COMMUNITY, WITH A COMMUNITY CENTER AS THE LEARNING GROUND. CAREFULLY SELECTED PATIENTS FROM THE HOSPITAL WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO…

In this study, which examines the relationship between level of information processing and level of general socialization, a total of 90 children aged 11 and 14 years and a group of 17 adults were presented with an organizational problem: how to order simultaneously presented tasks. Subjects were individually shown a map with locations and…

Professional socialization in this paper refers to the process by which neophytes are initiated into the norms and values governing professional and academic disciplines in graduate school by professional gate-keepers. The first part of the paper shows very large differences in the effectiveness of professional socialization by sex, and across…

This study sought (1) to explain variations in (a) faculty acceptance of the junior college role and (b) the degree of faculty consideration for their students and (2) to see if those who accept the junior college concept also show a higher degree of consideration for students. It was hypothesized that faculty members acquired their attitudes to…

This study measures and evaluates the premarital sexual standards of a sample of adolescents residing in a small Mississippi community. On the basis of their response patterns to a set of Guttman scale items, the students were classified into three standards: abstinence, double standard, and the single standard of permissiveness. A racial…

Compiled by Feminists on Children's Media, this bibliography of "non-sexist" children's literature lists 200 titles of both fiction and nonfiction books. Each reference includes the author, publisher, title, and copyright date in addition to a brief synopsis of the story. Other than those books listed under the category of picturebooks,…

This paper examines the current and changing roles of the school, family and workplace in the development of young people into adults. Due to changes in these institutions, young people are shielded from responsibility, held in a dependent status, and kept away from productive work-all of which makes their transition into adulthood a difficult and…

Educational reforms in higher education since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

Political socialization and worker training in Chinese middle schools since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

This article discusses the "back to basics" movement and points out both its advantages and disadvantages. (CD)