In 1977 Paul and Lentz published results of social learning therapy, also called token economy, for chronic psychiatric inpatients of state mental hospitals. The enormous success of token economy therapy both for the patients' mental health and for cost effectiveness led Paul and Lentz to conclude that this therapy was the treatment of choice for…

Authors offered a provocative guide to what the public response to the Coleman Report may be; they reacted both positively and negatively in the name of parents, young people, taxpayers, teachers, and legislators. (Editor/RK)

Author examined the encroachment of controls into people's lives and analyzed how individuals cope with external processes while maintaining their own internal harmony. (RK)

Compares the fertility levels between first and second generation Italian immigrants and suggests that the pattern of change found indicates their integration into the mainstream of American life and value systems. (Author/SF)

Identified as a "transliteration" of J. L. Lafitau's "Les Moeurs des Sauvages Ameriquain" (1724), this article offers data on the political structure of the Iroquois government when at its height of power in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. (JC)

Discusses the relationship between human rule systems and social action. Evidence is presented which suggests that behavior dimensions can be objectively assessed and that the suggested model works well in predicting and explaining moral conduct. (Author/DEP)

A Q-factor analysis study was undertaken to supplement an earlier research effort that had suggested that television can be an acculturator for foreign students. The method used to test the relationship between television presentation and foreign students' orientation toward cultural values involved three steps: (1) traditional values were…

Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," published in 1776, was a significant rhetorical event, having a polarizing effect on a situation marked by confusion and conflicting loyalties, in which prevailing views favored reconciliation of the American colonies with England. Paine's rhetoric intensified the conflict, forcing a cognitive restructuring…

THE AUTHOR PROPOSED THAT EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS SHOULD FOCUS UPON POLITICAL RESOCIALIZATION, THAT IS, THE ATTEMPT TO CREATE NEW COGNITIVE, AFFECTIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL DIMENSIONS OF POLITICAL LEARNING. THE CURRENT POLITICAL SOCIALIZATION PROCESS SERVES TO REINFORCE TRADITIONAL MIDDLE-CLASS VALUES RATHER THAN TO EXPAND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND…

This study provides a profile of preschool children's leisure time activities and examines (1) whether preschool children's self-concepts are related to leisure time activities and (2) whether parental involvement in the leisure activities of children, including television viewing, are associated with higher levels of self-concept in children. The…

As communities have become increasingly heterogeneous, the congruence between formal education and other socializing institutions has diminished. Nowhere is social discontinuity more visible than in our approach to adolescent education. It is a matter of wide concern that schools are failing to prepare young people for a life of work and social…

A study to assess the information function of pop music in the adolescent socialization process involved approximately 500 students in junior and senior high schools and colleges in a large metropolitan area in the northeast and approximately 400 university undergraduates in an introductory sociology class. In-class, self-administered…

TO ASSIST YOUNG, MENTAL PATIENTS IN OVERCOMING SOME OF THEIR SOCIAL DEFICITS, TWO RESOCIALIZATION PROJECTS (PRE- AND POST-DISCHARGE) WERE INITIATED TO MOVE THE PATIENT FROM A MENTAL HOSPITAL SETTING INTO THE LARGER COMMUNITY, WITH A COMMUNITY CENTER AS THE LEARNING GROUND. CAREFULLY SELECTED PATIENTS FROM THE HOSPITAL WERE GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO…