Eight papers report on the project at Austin State School, funded by a Hospital Improvement (HIP) grant, which used a multidisciplinary team to implement socialization programs for institutionalized mildly retarded persons exhibiting socially inept behavior. Two papers consider social rehabilitation and the task of trying to move residents out…

The authors investigate MacDonald's (1969) hypothesis that a sex by birth order interaction should be observed in measures related to sex typing. Since first borns are more thoroughly socialized, MacDonald reasons, and since parental expectations differ according to the child's sex, then first born boys and girls on sex typed variables.…

Revisions of papers originally presented at the second Miami University Symposium on Social Behavior comprise this book. The parts and chapters of the book are as follows: Part I. Biological Aspects of Socialization and Implications of Animal Studies: Introduction. The Biology of Socialization; Chapter 1. Genetic Influences on Socialization;…

Social learning, in particular, modeling and imitation learning, is discussed in the five sections of this paper. Section One deals with the characteristics of the model (human versus cartoon, television, film, etc.) and characteristics of the situation (reward versus punishment, etc.). Section Two, which is relatively extensive, covers aspects of…

Eight years of research by the Harvard University's Program on Technology and Society are summarized. Lengthy abstracts of the 29 books and 164 articles that resulted from the Program, as well as interim accounts of projects not yet completed are presented. The report is divided into four parts; institutions (including business, education, and…

Representative democracy is unlikely to persist for long in its present state of instability. Unless we move forward into a more participatory democracy we may find our government increasingly bland and manipulative, brutish and tyrannical. The fundamental question about television is how it can help the growth of participatory democracy. We need…

The purpose of this workshop was to critically examine projects of nine young sociologists and social psychologists who were finalists in the small-grant program for new PhDs sponsored by the Committee on Basic Research in Education (COBRE). Since the awardees who attended the workshop had no prior training or research experience directly related…

All human development is social-situational--that is, it is the result of continued interaction between personal maturation and socialization into group life. For most Americans, it is families and schools under whose direct influence a large proportion of preadult life is spent. Within these communities are subgroups based on age, sex,…

The role of the Communist Party in mobilizing the Soviet people during World War II is outlined. Emphasis is placed upon teaching the role of the Party in history and social studies classes. (DE)

The author summarizes the political education given to troops during World War II. (DE)

Techniques for teaching elementary students about relationships between people and governments are explored. (DE)

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

The article criticizes a number of assumptions about children and about education, among them the tendency to categorize children as bright or dull based on imperfect evidence, and the adherence to rigid views of one or another educational expert. (CD)

This experiment demonstrated that 12-month-old monkeys reared in social isolation developed appropriate species-typical behavior through the use of adaptation, self pacing of visual input and exposure to younger "therapist" monkeys. A critical period of socialization is not indicated in the rhesus monkey. (GO)

Investigates the relationship between the amount of learning which occurs in children during home television viewing and the presence of parental interaction during this period and concludes that parental interaction enhances incidental learning. (MH)