THE FINAL REPORTS OF TWO RESEARCH PROJECTS, INVESTIGATING THE METHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ASPECTS OF INTRA-FAMILY RELATIONS AS THEY RELATE TO FAMILY SOCIALIZATION EFFECTIVENESS, ARE PRESENTED. PART I IS DEVOTED TO FOUR TASKS--(1) THE PRESENTATION OF AN OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIALIZATION PROCESS IN GENERAL, AND THE FAMILY AND SCHOOL AS PARTICULAR…

The paper reviews factors which interfere with normal socialization of young handicapped children, and considers such issues as dependency, sex role, socialization within the family, and sibling and peer relationships. The role of preschool programs in intervening in the young handicapped child's socialization is examined. (CL)

This study applies a model of institutional socialization to the institution of college sport. Five variables were generated with reference to college sport as an agent of socialization and to the occupations of medicine, law, and business. The degree to which these five variables exist in the U.S. was investigated by means of a questionnaire…

This report attempts to establish some theoretical considerations dealing with the socialization process within workshop settings. The claim is made that the process of change is determined in part by the extent to which new role formation is achieved. Socialization theory is employed in an attempt to reconceptualize workshops in in-service…

This paper is intended to contribute to the reexamination of the proper role of sport and its actual relationship to the educational enterprise of which it is a part. Two polar views of the proper purpose of schooling are discussed first: education for maturity and education for enculturation. The opinion is then set forth that American public…

Given the growing interest in the area of socialization and mass media, this bibliography of articles and books is intended to simplify reference to the literature and to stimulate research. Three primary sources are used: "Psychological Abstracts (1950-1972),""Sociological Abstracts (1953-1972)," and the "Cumulative Book…

The Centre for Civic Education has as its chief objective educating the populace of Ghana in social, economic, and political subjects. To effect this, the country is divided into 9 regions, made up of 51 districts, with 2 organizers per region. A board of Trustees acts as the Centre's governing body. The work of the Centre is organized into…

All forms of play are transformations of four basic modes by which people know the world: copying, analysis, prediction, and synthesis. Transformation involves foregoing the usual outcomes of adapted intelligence for the sake of voluntary control of one's own behavior in games, and for the excitement of novel affective, cognitive and behavioral…

Eysenck's theory that variations in resistance-to-temptation (i.e., RTT) behavior are contingent on 2 basic personality dimensions -- introversion-extroversion and neuroticism -- which produce differences in conditionability was evaluated in a punishment paradigm with adolescent boys. Measures of manifest anxiety, self-control, and…

When judiciously interpreted, the findings of the Report to the Surgeon General on Television and Social Behavior cannot support any conclusion other than that televised violence is a cause of aggressiveness in children and young people. Given this interpretation, policy guidance research into the effects of television on society should include…

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

The authors discuss the results of a survey which collected data on female candidacy for city council offices and on election victories. Questionnaires were mailed to 838 U.S. cities with a population of 25,000 or more. (Author/RM)

Results of a study which explored how children acquire ideas about capitalism suggest that economic socialization progressively orients children to a favorable view of capitalism and structured social inequality. (Author/EB)

Student teachers must be taught new ways to cope with bureaucracy, while effecting purposeful changes in the status quo. (Editor)

Suggests that individuals may differentially identify with and learn from media presentation in terms of whether the images are structured as real or fictional events, and that, independent of the inherent real or fictional structure of the given events, the television format has a fictionalizing capacity in and out of itself. (JMF)