This annotated bibliography provides a descriptive representation of selected literature on black families. It identifies some of the research concerns used in studying, servicing, and formulating social policies towards black families in the United States. Among the subject areas addressed are the following: (1) dynamics and functions of the…

The subject of this booklet is cross-age helping. It begins with a discussion of what cross-age helping is and why it is effective. Cross-age helping is described as a program where children teach or help other children. The older children help the younger children learn what the younger children want to know, and the younger children help the…

South Africa, the last urban, industrial, Western-culture society without television, called for television introduction on January 1, 1976. Thus, South Africa represented the last chance to explore certain research questions about the impact of television in modern societies. A study was made of: (1) factors in the South African context which…

This report, the last in a series of six reports on television advertising and children, describes patterns of advertising exposure and evaluation in the naturalistic setting and examines the role of commercials in late childhood socialization. An omnibus questionnaire was administered to 775 fourth through seventh grade students in urban,…

Black studies, hence relevant education for black people in this country, have been omitted from educational curricula at all levels. Some reasons are: questions of moral responsibility involved in complying with public pressure for curriculum reforms; doubt that the experiences of black people justify study; general ignorance of Afro-American…

From a theoretical framework, hypotheses were generated which predicted that 1) teachers who had undergone organizational socialization (experienced teachers) would be more employee-oriented than education students who had no teaching experience; and 2) education students would be more professionally oriented than the experienced teachers. Two…

Play and games are widely held to meet a vital role in the socialization process. This study explores the differences in their socialization impact by race. Children in the sixth grade at a rural school were surveyed with regard to their participation in four types of games: individual, sports, board/card and party. Game experience was found to be…

This is the report of a seminar assembled to develop ideas and stimulate interest in the study of the intersection between the social sciences and moral theory with respect to how formal schooling functions in the process of moral and civic education. The report consists essentially in the production of the papers produced for the seminar, in the…

This study examined the relation between exploratory behavior and (1) the experimenter-child relationship, and (2) teacher ratings of dependency and autonomous achievement striving. Subjects were 34 girls and 38 boys randomly selected from two prekindergartens. Experimental conditions consisted of two levels of pre-experimental social interaction…

This paper examines the major theoretical approaches to the study of socialization, with an emphasis on media effects. The three major bodies of literature studied are the major theoretic approaches utilized in the general area of developmental psychology, the theoretical paradigms evident in studies dealing more specifically with child…

This report describes a naturalistic observational study concerned with the functions of aggression in children and how they change with age. Background on aggression is provided through a discussion of the problems of definition and ontogenesis, which have led to a general shortage of relevant developmental data. This study involved 102 children,…

The paper relates the development of childhood behavior problems to a developmental theory of the acquisition of psycho-social skills in children. The influence of Eric Erikson (1950) on the ideas expressed is acknowledged. It is stated that each of the major types of behavior problems (withdrawal, impulsivity, dependence) results from a major…

The question of achievement motivation in relation to developing countries is explored. A foundation for the study is achieved through discussion of the socialization processes as they are affected by education and economic growth. It is suggested that the societal system determines motivation and values which in turn cause and determine the…

Discussions in this paper concern: (1) some findings from observations of social interactions among children attending a national sample of Head Start programs; (2) the recommendations for research on socialization presented by Sowder and Lazar (1973) to the Federal Interagency Panel on Early Child Development; and (3) the significance of…

Observational learning requires exposure to modeling cues, acquisition of the ability to reproduce what is seen or heard, and acceptance of the model's behavior as a guide for one's own actions, as imitation, counter-imitation, disinhibition, or inhibition. In this overview paper, the author considers a large body of research, especially that…