Interviews conducted with adolescents from 12 to 17 years old and their parents revealed adolescent drinking can be explained by parental models of drinking behavior. Parental socialization factors, particularly support and to a lesser degree control, were also shown to have an effect on the development of adolescent drinking behaviors.…

Reviewing the concerns expressed in an educational article written 100 years ago, the author shows that these same areas concern educators today. The article provides a perspective on the problems of education. (MD)

Philosophers of education tend to stress the importance of analytic and scientific thinking. A discussion of how dialectical reasoning, as developed by Jean Paul Sartre, can contribute to educational thought is offered. (DF)

This article reports on a study that examined and compared sport participation during leisure time and spectatorship and interest in sport as a leisure activity. The examination concentrated on motivational structure, socialization, and relationship between modes of leisure. Differences between the two sport-related types of leisure behavior are…

In a study of the organizational socialization of law school interns, the authors observed that some of the students were assimilated quickly and completely into the role of prosecutor, while others were less socialized. The authors believe that the organizational structure and level of control exercised over the interns accounted for these…

Hawaii's multiethnic society provides a field for researching the impact of ethnicity on the learning of female sex roles. Life data from one Chinese/Hawaiian woman and one Portuguese/Hawaiian woman are used to compare their socialization to sex-related roles during their girlhoods in the 1920s and 1930s. (CJM)

This article argues that treating interviews with adolescents as actual instances of adolescent-adult interaction yields an additional order of data, located in the conversing, which can complement the content analysis and interpretation of answers to questions. The technique is illustrated by transcribed passages from interviews with young…

Explored the relationship between two types of childhood family aggression and severe marital aggression in the next generation of adults (N=2,143). Results indicated that observing hitting between one's parents is more strongly related to involvement in severe marital aggression than is being hit as a teenager by one's parent. (LLL)

Reviews the literature on child compliance from two theoretical perspectives, social learning theory and the ethological-evolutionary model, with an emphasis on the link between an adult's supportiveness and sensitivity and a child's level of compliance. Strategies for practitioners, based on the research, are suggested. (Author/JAC)

Author argued that the DES's review of the youth service is "utterly devoid of moral considerations or a human dimension." (Editor/RK)

The present study tested derivations from social learning theory on the disinhibition of aggression through processes that weaken self-deterring consequences to injurious conduct. (Editor)

This paper outlines a proposed study of the academic promotion process by obtaining the faculty perception of the process through descriptions of their experiences. The primary area of concern is the promotion of female associate professors to the status of full professor. The conceptual framework of the study is predicated on four bodies of…

An understanding of the lawfulness of phenomena and of scientific method, integral parts of physics, are just two examples of intellectual concepts that will help equip students with a scientific-atheistic world view - one of the goals of communism. It is every teacher's duty to pursue this goal throughout the curriculum. (JH)

The article's prime purpose is to describe the attemps of an informal association of prople to create educational activities which, in themselves, would be actions on the problems of international development. It is hoped the explanation will clarify some of the major issues in the new field of international education. (Author/AG)