The present paper considers critical factors in the experience of young people that need to be taken into account in order to understand them and to develop prevention programs. Drawing on research and the literature on socialization, social psychology, and drug abuse, an ethnographically informed social context model of the actor is developed and…

The paper focuses on the relationship between changing societal norms and actual, emotional acceptance of them for oneself, with regard to changing norms toward women's roles as they relate to the areas of abortion and sexual behavior. Elective abortion still is regarded by many as a "deviant" activity. Such a view has sprung from an uncritical…

This paper provides an analysis of plot structure in stories freely narrated by five-to-ten-year-old elementary school children. The question was raised whether the stories, collected over a two-year period, would reflect the children's transition from home to school by a shift from a private to a public character. Structural analyses of plot,…

This paper examines the career patterns of educational administrators in order to identify socialization processes and consequences in public school systems. Section 1 presents a review of the literature dealing with school career socialization, including studies of the career patterns of both teachers and administrators; section 2 examines…

This paper assesses certain aspects of current socialization theory, arguing that there are two major developments in the field of psychology as a whole which need to be more fully assimilated in the work on socialization. The first is the attack on trait theory, and it is argued that socialization research can survive this attack only if it…

When social cost of space is created in sparse regions, it becomes a further limiting force on population and economic growth. Social cost of space represents a deficit condition in which effective role performance and status acquisition are difficult to invent, achieve, and maintain, especially when faced with great change. A particularly…

In this paper, the development of interest in ethnicity on the part of scholars is briefly highlighted, and the beginnings of this increased interest are traced to Robert Park when, in 1923, he urged sociologists to concentrate study on urban ethnic groups as a means of understanding community processes. As a means of understanding the…

As a background to the present research, preliminary discussion is focused on Piaget's formulation of moral development in the child and recent investigations based on that formulation. The objective of this research was to assess the interrelationships between level of moral judgment maturity and several other sectors of development. A moral…

Thirty-one 4-year-old Negro boys attending a research preschool in Chicago were observed during a play session. Preliminary evaluation of the data from the observations indicated a marked heterogeneity in the subjects with regard to verbal facility, cognitive development, and quality and nature of object relationships. Poor correlation was found…

The New York City teachers' strike in 1968 over the issue of the removal of some teachers in Ocean Hill-Brownsville created an opportunity for a study of the effect of the strike on children's political values and beliefs. Drawing upon a sample of Jewish boys and their parents from an almost exclusively Jewish community, two hypotheses were…

This book sketches a portrait of teaching careers in urban schools. Through focusing on teachers and their problems, the author presents an approach to the study of inner-city schools. First hand experiences of teachers and administrators are included, which are held to be of particular relevance to new teachers: "Socialization: a white teacher…

The relationship of architecture to human behavior is a topic of increasing concern both to designers and behavioral scientists. To further evaluate the extent of the relationship a series of preliminary investigations has been undertaken. The primary means of measurement was informal conversations of dental students as related to the…

Kindergarten provides the child with an introduction to the outside world and to various work activities appropriate to his stage of development. In order to select such activities, the kindergarten teacher must understand the child's growth, developmental, and learning processes both before he has entered school and during his kindergarten year.…

The papers in this edited volume on the directions in mass communication research deal with two broad questions: What is the current state of knowledge with respect to the area in question? And what might be the most fruitful directions for future research? The nine articles include: (1) an attempt to structure the field of mass communication; (2)…

This report focused on the analysis of the concept of social role-taking (social perspective-taking) from a structural or Piagetian point of view. The stages of social role-taking were defined, in accordance with structural criteria, to try to indicate why, for a given stage, each aspect of the stage logically implied each other aspect. The…