In this study, which examines the relationship between level of information processing and level of general socialization, a total of 90 children aged 11 and 14 years and a group of 17 adults were presented with an organizational problem: how to order simultaneously presented tasks. Subjects were individually shown a map with locations and…

Professional socialization in this paper refers to the process by which neophytes are initiated into the norms and values governing professional and academic disciplines in graduate school by professional gate-keepers. The first part of the paper shows very large differences in the effectiveness of professional socialization by sex, and across…

This study sought (1) to explain variations in (a) faculty acceptance of the junior college role and (b) the degree of faculty consideration for their students and (2) to see if those who accept the junior college concept also show a higher degree of consideration for students. It was hypothesized that faculty members acquired their attitudes to…

This study measures and evaluates the premarital sexual standards of a sample of adolescents residing in a small Mississippi community. On the basis of their response patterns to a set of Guttman scale items, the students were classified into three standards: abstinence, double standard, and the single standard of permissiveness. A racial…

Compiled by Feminists on Children's Media, this bibliography of "non-sexist" children's literature lists 200 titles of both fiction and nonfiction books. Each reference includes the author, publisher, title, and copyright date in addition to a brief synopsis of the story. Other than those books listed under the category of picturebooks,…

This paper examines the current and changing roles of the school, family and workplace in the development of young people into adults. Due to changes in these institutions, young people are shielded from responsibility, held in a dependent status, and kept away from productive work-all of which makes their transition into adulthood a difficult and…

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

Political socialization and worker training in Chinese middle schools since the Cultural Revolution are described. (DE)

This article discusses the "back to basics" movement and points out both its advantages and disadvantages. (CD)

An analysis of the data in this study indicated a sex linked difference in the expressed desire to win at sports with women tending to rate low and men tending to rate high on the orientation toward winning scale. (RC)

The author examines how Asian political leaders are attempting to develop a set of unified shared beliefs among their populace. The task of the historian in promoting this cultural heritage is examined. (DE)

A technique designed to provide an idiosyncratic representation of a client's personal socialization experiences and reanalysis of these experiences from social-learning-theory perspective reveals interconnectedness of cognitions, feelings, and actions that contribute to the client's self-image. A case study illustrating the use of…

The socializing effects of the institutional culture of public schools may be the most powerful single influence in the development of teachers, yet the teacher education profession has largely ignored what happens to its students after they leave college. (DS)

This paper has three purposes: (1) to identify the variables that affect the extent and form of the contributions of schools to nationism; (2) to identify the points at which convergences in the profile and outlooks of students occur; and (3) to evaluate the limits of the schools' contributions to nationism. (Author/AM)

The process of becoming American was accomplished, at least in part and at least at first, by groups of immigrants from the same countries interacting with each other and with the new national system, and with the other groups of immigrants with whom they came into contact. (Author)