This report presents the results of a study made to discover what changes are made in students' occupational plans and attitudes after attending 4 years of agricultural school. The Missouri College of Agriculture was the site of the study, and the 1964 freshman class was the focus. Questionnaires regarding occupational choice and socioeconomic…

Stereotyped views of active masculinity and passive femininity have recently come under increasingly critical scrutiny. From the abstract to the practical, the authors see a growth of efforts toward equality of social opportunity regardless of biological differences. The central thesis of the paper is that women are repeatedly subject to…

The relationships among mass media, interpersonal communication, and voting behavior were explored in a two-stage panel study of 141 respondents during a 1974 Illinois congressional election. Analyses of perceived exposures to mass media and to interpersonal communication were interpreted as supporting Rogers and Shoemakers' (1971)…

The task of this chapter is to explore the relationship that exists between individuals and society in the American culture. A special emphasis is placed on the experience of growing up in America and attention is given to those portions of everyday life that create the varying images of self and humankind that young people accept as real.…

Long range effects may be of three varieties: those which are observable in the immediate period subsequent to exposure but are long range because of their continuing repetitive accumulation with each exposure; those which represent the cumulative or delayed impact on individuals of exposure to television; or those which represent the immediate…

The role of the engineering university in expanding the ranks of proletarian intellectuals is emphasized. (DE)

Article provided a brief look at the history and development of sex roles in an attempt to understand how that role definition developed and why it is only now being seriously challenged. (Author/RK)

Examination is made of a theory that claims that though schools are ostensibly committed to the personal development of the student and to providing equality of opportunity, their real purpose is to integrate youth into society to reproduce the inequalities of everyday life in capitalist America. (JD)

Previous research has suggested that people who have liberal attitudes toward women are affected by models differently from those with more traditional attitudes. This study investigated this modeling effect by asking college seniors to rate the degree to which a variety of people influenced their career choice while in college. (Author)

Describes a program in which smaller class groups for socially and culturally deprived children resulted in enhanced social attitudes and more responsive, mature behavior in interaction with both adults and peers. (Author/IRT)

Few sociologists and fewer educators have recognized Emile Durkheim's significant contribution to the sociology of education. His major theories of education are discussed under three main groupings--education developing as a social process, education's function in the socialization of the young, and education in the development of morality.…

Assesses the impact of law school on values and attitudes of students at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. A survey of all U.C. law students in 1975-76 examined their attitudes concerning role behaviors and attitudes concerning judicial policies. Findings indicated that law students' values, attitudes, and consequent behavior are only…

Aspects of "liberalism" incorporating notions of balance, fairness, objectivity, and common sense are discussed in relation to the teaching of media studies. The British TV series "Looking at Television" is examined to clarify the way which the liberal ethos pervades the series to its detriment. Liberalism is shown as allowing…

Author believes that the rise of the Manpower Services Commission means youth workers must drop their mystifying community labels and reassert the specialist nature of their jobs. In the wake of the State giving up the commitment to youth service, examines where youth work will be done on the future. (Editor/RK)

Discusses a study designed to explore children's television viewing patterns and their perceptions of the media, and offers an evaluation of television's impact on the young child's lifestyle. (MH)