Examines the relationship between birth order, club membership and mass media exposure for women college students in Lebanon. Findings show the total membership rate and mass media consumption are higher among last born girls than first born. Birth order differences are explained in terms of the differential socialization of children. (Author)

This paper developed one possible set of hypotheses to explain academic achievement for a given class size and hours of instruction, in terms of the socialization function of the school. (Author/RK)

This study focuses on the generational unit born out of the student protest movement and the long-range consequences of having been involved in a social movement. Three alternative sets of consequences were explored: maturation, dissillusionment, and generational conflict which creates a distinctive generational unit. The results strongly suggest…

The impact of the cultural revolution on China's education system includes greater emphasis on politics, practical learning, the dignity of manual labor and more open educational opportunities. (DE)

Several well-known theorists' definitions of the "new social studies" that define social studies as citizenship transmission, social science, or reflective inquiry are examined. (ND)

Investigates trends in the development of the ideal self concept among 1000 Yoruba children in Nigeria, 6 to 15 years old, using interviews and essay writing to determine the persons with whom the children most closely identified. (ED)

Moral judgments of Israeli and Soviet educated adolescents who had recently arrived in Israel were compared on a relativistic-realistic dimension, using a specially designed instrument - the Morality Shifting in Adolescence Questionnaire. Soviety educated adolescents were significantly more realistically oriented in moral judgment and in both…

A survey of attitudes of the student population at Nigeria's University of Ife, at the outset of the civil war in 1967, revealed the development of a common set of political attitudes among the students which are variegated but in which variations are not related to tribal origins in any fundamental aspects. (EH)

A study on the interaction between the physical environment, parental attitudes, and socialization settings of young children living in first- or second-floor apartments revealed that children living in second-floor apartments were more restricted and had fewer social contacts than children living in first-floor apartments. (A G)

Beginning teachers' experience in the school organization is related to increased bureaucratic orientation and decreased professional orientation. (Author)

Response patterns of 24 female nurses to 2-day-old neonates who had been arbitrarily labeled male or female were studied. A total of 17 reliable behaviors of nurses were scored from videotapes of nurse-infant interaction. Nurses responded differentially to neonates based on true gender rather than ascribed gender. Nurses held boys more by their…

This paper describes the importance of knowledge about the social organization of schools and classrooms for beginning teachers. The paper begins with a consideration of schools and classrooms as cultural settings and examines the beginning teacher's role within them. The remaining sections of the paper examine the interweaving of school social…

Despite recent efforts to overhaul teacher training and redesign the American teacher, reform advocates acknowledge that not enough is known about predicting education work force outcomes or their effects on classroom results. Lack of a strong conceptual background and a rigorous practice teaching experience handicaps beginning teachers and…