Explores the concepts of event analysis, the natural history method, and the ritual process in relation to the processes of culture transmission. Focuses on one American ritual, the family reunion, as an example of a learning context within which children absorb a culture's patterns and rhythms. (Author/CMG)

Discusses the incidence of crime (and other indicators of alienation) for school-aged, young Americans in terms of sociological variables. Draws on the tradition of research in culture and personality to interpret these failures of socialization in terms of certain widespread changes in patterns of child-rearing. (Author/JAC)

Results of two experiments indicate that dimensions of the social situation in which social behaviors are modeled influence eight-month-old children's tendency to imitate and their choice of recipients for their imitation. (Author/RH)

Examines the theories of Aronfreed, Bandura, Berger, and Hygge. Also reviews experimental evidence published since 1962 which supports theories of observational learning of emotional behavior. While the theories posit that different conditions are necessary to vicarious instigation, most research does not test the theories in any direct way.…

Sampled 106 children's television cartoons to determine the nature and extent of material on aging. Results indicated that although old age is not a dominant theme, the topic is typically framed in negative terms with a potential to reinforce dominant cultural stereotypes. (JAC)

This handbook has been designed to assist educators in their attempts to assess, develop, implement, and monitor schoolwide discipline programs. It contains the main components and implementation guidelines for a complete schoolwide discipline plan. Brief explanations, procedural guidelines, examples, and worksheets are included to enable users to…

Literature on the national poverty war is examined, focusing on concepts of community action and resident participation as contributors to adult education of the poor for improved social and civic competence. The literature is found to demonstrate positive, though limited, aspects of participation as civic education. (AG)

Results of post-election questionnaires and personal interviews with illiterate voters; data is tabulated. (SP)

From an anthropological viewpoint, the author examines the relationship of modern-day youth with his "multidimensional world, whose components are science, creation, knowledge, language, society, power and man. (LC)

Author discusses the novel A Little Princess, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, and its relationship to our uses of fantasy in everyday life. (JB)

Confrontation of socialism and capitalism in the political socialization of today's Soviet and American youth. (SE)

Through the use of a self report measure, evidence was provided for the hypothesis that the tendency to adopt either the ethics of personal conscience or the ethics of social responsibility in relation to moral principles is a result of the adherent's underlying personality structure. (Author/KJ)

The educational system is viewed as a politicizing agent of society. The norms and values thus transmitted are compared with those deemed necessary for a stable democratic political system. It is argued that neither the typical techniques of classroom instruction nor the content (or lack therof) of social studies courses contributes to the…