The interdependence between education and culture is of growing importance. Interest is growing in the relationship between the two, because of the pace of technological change, the effects of social currents, and the decision by the United Nations General Assembly to observe 1988-1997 as the World Decade for Cultural Development. One of the main…

This paper discusses factors that relate to the development of children's theory of mind. Cognitive and biosocial views of the development of theory of mind are distinquished. The paper maintains that all cultures recognize the intentional personhood of children in the first two years, though they vary in their methods of dealing with this…

Three studies explored age, sex, and individual differences in children's defensiveness about four feelings: happiness, anger, sadness, and fear. Also investigated was the relation between children's defensiveness and their mothers' comfort with and expression of feelings. Participants included children ranging in age from 4 through 11 years of…

Because career education is basically a socially bound process, influenced greatly by individual and social change, sociology is an important tool in understanding its full impact. Career education not only precedes participation in society, but it integrates learning and doing, merging the home, community, school, and workplace into a whole.…

Examines a television campaign intended to reduce sex and class differences in buying children's books. Results indicate that the campaign may have contributed to increasing such differences. (MH)

Explores and summarizes Scandinavian research on the relevance of identification theory to childrens mass communication experiences. (MH)

Analyzes sex-role portrayals in various childrens' educational television programs and reveals numerous models of sex-role inequity. (MH)

Assesses television's potential to influence both prosocial and antisocial behavior in children and cites supportive investigative studies. (MH)

Kindergarten, eight grade, college, and adult subjects were presented with a list of 43 adult occupations. They indicated for each whether it should be performed by a male, female, or either. In each age group except kindergarten there was a significant sex difference with females being more liberal. (Author)

Japanese literature, television, movies, and school texts from 1935 to 1955 are analyzed for their influence and contribution to Japanese youths' pioneering spirit and frontiermindedness. "Asian Affairs" is published by the American-Asian Educational Exchange, New York. (DE)

Compares traditional and changing Mexican communities by assessing cognitive styles in school children (using the Portable Rod and Frame Test) and attitudes of their mothers regarding socialization by means of interviews and questionnaires, to determine differences in field dependent cognitive styles and "socialization" clusters. (ED)

In the longitudinal study reported here a comparison was made of changes in basic professional orientations of students during the first three years of professional socialization in four health fields in Israel: medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing. (Editor)

Describes how to plan and execute an extended field trip which provides first hand observation of biological and cultural systems. Socialization of the participants was achieved through common planning and goal achievement. (BR)

Implying that the school is not hospitable to open inquiry, the findings of this study suggest that some of the difficulties that confront attempts to implement a curriculum based on "the new social studies," particularly with respect to nationalistic instruction. (JH)

The purpose of the study was to isolate groups homogeneous in role-taking ability and to describe them on dimensions of the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) Socialization (So) scale. The results support the validity of some of the subscales as indicators of the role-taking construct underlying the So scale. (Author)