The challenge to the curriculum specialist is to determine objectives for citizenship which consider the varied democratic principles and societal value demands, and to create a cooperative professional relationship between the college-level and school level curriculum specialist. (Author/KM)

A survey of student opinion reflects the influence of schools on the development of sex roles. Activities are suggested to learn the social science skills of data collection and interpretation in order for students to develop their own concepts and values of role, status, and socialization.

The reaction paper discusses two of the goals for social studies posited by B. Spodek: social knowledge and representation. Specific and concrete examples to enable teachers to translate theory into practice are provided. (Author/RM)

The purpose of this article is to examine the present academic milieu in terms of the relationship between social structure and the composition of student cultures in higher education. (Author)

This paper has been arguing for an education which develops in children the capacity to work out their own authentic response to the many conflicting socialization pressures. (Author)

Assesses the significance of data on childhood political learning to political theory by testing the structuring principle,'' considered one of the central assumptions of political socialization research. This principle asserts that basic orientations acquired during childhood structure the later learning of specific issue beliefs.'' The…

Neither ignorance and fantasy nor the sense that the subjects of this study (both Negro and white children) have been labeled and consigned to a brutish existence have, in fact, shaped their approach to a career; special processes of socialization and of communication lead to the setting of high but not unrealistic goals. (Authors)

Discusses the need for liberation from culturally imposed roles that are restrictively narrow and unresponsive to the challenges and opportunities of contemporary life. (Author)

A four choice discrimination problem was used to examine imitative behavior in children matched in mental age but differing in chronological age. The finding that older children imitated less than younger children is discussed in terms of socialization. (DP)

This longitudinal study investigated the relationship between watching televised contact sports and displaying aggressive behavior. Findings point out sex differences which are discussed in terms of child rearing practices. (DP)

This paper discusses psychoanalytic contributions concerning both the development and the facilitation of qualities such as empathy, love for neighbor social-mindedness, identification, sympathy, and altruism; and neurotic manifestations of altruism and of other positive qualities. (Author/JM)

The purpose of this article is to describe the development of an assessment technique for the psychosocial environment of the junior high and high school classroom. (Author/RK)

This study of whether social-psychological orientations are cause or effect of action in groups presented no simple answer, but findings indicate that interpersonal and status factors can determine peace group memberships and biographical data suggest that orientations predisposing to peace group membership take shape in youth and early adulthood…

Suggests that a fundamental idea embraced today in Sweden is that one must aim for change which emancipates men as well as women from the restrictive effects engendered by the traditional sex-roles. (Author/JM)