The continued need for political socialization of Chinese youth is emphasized. (DE)

A discussion on the need for research to focus on the effects of simulation games on students and social learning. (HB)

Play, game, and sport contribute to the socialization of the child and help to restrict individual expression and potential to socially acceptable roles. What is needed is a move from traditional regimentation to more freedom in choice and more focus upon intrinsic rewards available in sports participation. (MJB)

Experimenters attempted to make eye contact with commuters as they approached an express train linking city and suburb. Results support the hypothesis that reduced eye contact with strangers in the city is a short-term adaptation to interpersonal overload. (Author)

Analysis of the ability of 17 autistic children to recognize age and sex-related characteristics of people indicated that autistic children were markedly impaired in their ability to differentiate adults from children and males from females when compared to nonautistic retarded and normal children. (Author/DB)

Sex hormones in the prenatal brain of humans influence the subsequent sexual status or orientation of the individual as bisexual, heterosexual, or homosexual. Postnatal socialization is another contributing factor. Sexual orientation is not under the direct governance of chromosomes and genes. (Author/VM)

Argues that legal socialization entails a commitment to institutional authority and variations in attitudes toward such authority emerge in adolescence. Presents a study in which attitudes toward institutional behavior were examined, finding a sex difference (males more negative and less compliant) and a significant correlation of attitudes with…

A 1983 study of managers in a large Canadian corporation found that women were only 80 percent as likely as their male colleagues to be promoted. The influence of gender on a manager's chances of promotion was found to be sizeable even when career-related factors were held constant. (JOW)

A teacher recounts how she dealt with a new student who was prone to tears and her peers who liked to evoke them. After discovering that the child had family problems, the teacher selected a group of peers to befriend her. (CB)

The socialization of teachers is discussed with reference to personal and structural influences of the classroom, the institution, the society, and the teachers' own recollections of experiences as pupils in schools and as students in teacher education. Structural influences at the classroom level are of major importance. (Author/MT)

It is suggested that the majority of problematic assumptions in sport socialization research have occurred at the methodological level rather than at the theoretical level. In addition, a breakdown between theory and subsequent operationalization has occurred. A discussion of these issues is presented. (Author/MT)

Participant observation found that the barbershop studies perpetuated sex-role stereotypes, encouraged sexist attitudes toward women and, in general, was a sex-role socialization setting that promoted sex-role inequality. (GC)

Argues that although both functionalist and "reproductive" radical paradigms of formal education assume that students passively internalize dominant norms and values taught by the school, the assumption is not invariably tenable. Demonstrates that systems of education serve as agents of legitimation and mediate the dialective…

More than 50 percent of Brazil's population is under age 18 and subjected to a kind of homogenization by the cultural industry, with radio and television dominating the diffusion of music. (PD)

Nursing graduates of 1980 had a significantly higher score on the political scale of the Allport Vernon Lindsey Scale of Values than did 1974 graduates, signifying that the recent group valued assertiveness, independence, and achievement to a greater degree. This increase in nontraditional values appeared to be closely tied to the socialization…