Describes a project in which women used literacy learning to examine critically the ways gender identity is shaped by images and symbols such as handbags. (SK)

Reviews the Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) regarding its intended purpose. Suggests that emphasis on clinical utility is an asset. Expresses concerns regarding internal consistency of some scales. Suggests reorganizing scales to improve reliability and validity. Cautions against use for diagnostic decisions. Suggests CBI has potential for research…

Critiques Krumboltz's description of the Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI). Suggests that CBI lacks clear definition of career beliefs. Notes that instrument description fails to discuss affective component of emotion. Criticizes reliability of CBI. Praises thoroughness employed in development of CBI. (CRR)

Responds to criticisms regarding Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI) offered by Fuqua and Newman and Walsh. Suggests that CBI is useful to clients as discovery tool. Defends position that CBI does assess values and that precision of CBI is sufficient for intended purpose. (CRR)

Discusses teaching and teacher education. Finds that extraneous knowledge is often promoted with the aim of raising the status of the teaching profession. This may result in a crowding out of common sense and valid tradition. (DM)

To investigate the establishment and maintenance of employee-organization fit, a recent study tracked the early careers of 171 entry-level auditors in 8 large U.S. public accounting firms and assessed the congruence of their values with organizational values. Recruits whose values match the firm's adjust more quickly and experience greater job…

Compared the abilities of 3 mother-reared and 3 human-raised (enculturated) chimpanzees and 16 human toddlers to imitatively learn novel actions on objects. Found that mother-reared chimpanzees were poorer imitators than both enculturated chimpanzees and human children, who did not differ from one another in imitative learning. On time delay…

Offers a literature review which explores the general concept of covictimization and its impact on African-American adolescents. Reviews supporting social learning theory and concludes that society must become more aware of, and try to lessen, the amount of violence to which adolescents are exposed. (RJM)

Develops a social psychological model of politicized collective identity that revolves around three conceptual themes (collective identity, the struggle for power, and the wider societal context of that power struggle). Discusses how collective identity has been politicized, showing that politicized collective identity has important consequences…

Develops a model illustrating that two elements of organizational culture--climate and socialization processes--foster acceptance of organizational values and facilitate the development of interfunctional coordination, which in turn influences firm performance. (Contains 42 references.) (JOW)

Examined the meaning of motherhood for black adolescent mothers. Interviews with and observations of mothers in an educational and vocational training program indicated that while some mothers found positive and self-affirming ways to express maternal identity, they continued to negotiate with negative and stigmatizing messages about themselves,…

Reio and Wiswell's study of 233 service industry workers found that state and trait curiosity (reflecting in information seeking on the job) influenced their technical and interpersonal job performance through workplace socialization. Rowden's critique faults the uncertain definition of terms and possibility of response bias. (SK)

Makes three main points in response to their critics. Suggests multiple methodologies are appropriate for the study of almost any communication phenomenon and that organizational assimilation is akin to or encompasses many issues that have been stated as outside its parameters. Identifies with disagreements in the use of several concepts. (SC)

Presents the Key model, a model of White male identity development. The theoretical underpinnings of J. Helms's (1990) White Racial Identity Development Model, other relevant identity models, as well as information on male gender role socialization are presented in relation to their influence on the Key model's development. (Contains 44 references…

The meaning of respect changed historically in postwar Japan, and respect as a concept is important yet unnoticed in postmodern Japanese society. Contrary to the perception of Japanese socialization as instilling conformist respect and obedience in children and adolescents, this chapter shows why one commentator predicts that Japan may be changing…