Attacks on multiculturalism in higher education as threatening free speech and genuine diversity of opinion have no basis in fact, but they may be expected to continue as the political Right realizes that the American academy is the last defender of the poor and the weak. (SLD)

Personality and intelligence associated with depressive symptoms in 99 young adults were evaluated using prospective data from preschool through adolescence. Found that depressive symptoms in males developed earlier than in females, and that adolescent females were more likely than adolescent males to express autocentric reactions, such as…

Considers the applicability of ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (which focus on language and the social organization of linguistic interchange) to the study of education, children's techniques of communication, socialization processes, and classroom communication. (DMM)

Notes that rough-and-tumble play must be considered in the context of social values; has beneficial influences on children's cognitive and social development; and is distinguishable from aggression. Makes a case for the use of socializing techniques in conjunction with rough and tumble play. (LB)

Presents theoretical perspectives on children's health attitudes. Considers the influence of socialization agents, including families, schools, peers, and the media, on children's acquisition of health attitudes and behaviors. Examines implications of research for social policy, research, and modeling of child health attitudes and behavior. (BC)

Social learning theory is evaluated from a historical perspective that goes up to the present. Sears and others melded psychoanalytic and stimulus-response learning theory into a comprehensive explanation of human behavior. Bandura emphasized cognitive and information-processing capacities that mediate social behavior. (LB)

Challenges for college students in the military include becoming socialized, identifying with the institution, learning to cope with both military and educational demands, and planning for another career. To succeed in serving this population well, institutions must address all these needs. (MSE)

Presents techniques for teachers, parents, schools, and communities to promote young children's social development. Cites research findings supporting these techniques, which focus on interpersonal interactions of caregivers with individual children or small groups of children. (HTH)

Posits that an evolutionary perspective can unite the study of the typical development for and individual variation within a species and that environments within the normal range for a species are required for species-normal development. Individual differences in children reared in normal environments arise primarily from genetic variation and…

Discusses five children's books with a multicultural perspective published to commemorate the Columbus Quincentenary. Finds that the books maintain a deeply Eurocentric bias; bury all wrongs in a distant past; and do not escape the hierarchial, elitist, and individualistic attitudes embedded in contemporary society. (SR)

Presents an interpretive study of 1 family's discourse concerning aggression between 2 brothers (9-years, 9-months and 11-years, 11-months old). Analyzes 10 parental strategies, representing all the turns within a long conversation in which parents took the lead in promoting their younger son's narrative and logical understanding of his offensive…

During December 1993 and January 1994, the Gallup Organization conducted the National Youth Survey: Attitudes Regarding Society, Education, and Adulthood. Based on telephone interviews with a sample of 630 children and teenagers, aged 10 to 17, the survey reveals optimistic attitudes, yet an emerging seriousness of purpose and waning of confidence…

Seventy-two summer interns were asked their attitudes toward the internship and toward retailing jobs. Supervisors' attitudes toward internships and their own jobs were also ascertained. Occupational socialization made a major difference in how interns experience their jobs; supervisor attitudes and expectations were only moderately influential.…

In a study of socialization of young children, the relationship between teachers' ratings of child temperament and preschool behavioral adjustment was examined. High task orientation and low reactivity were found to be related to positive socialization toward teachers and the classroom setting. (Author/LB)

Discusses the difficulties of providing unity in introductory political science classes. Argues that beginning students will better understand politics if they are shown how to conceive of political figures and events in the same terms as their own experience. Urges a definition of politics that stresses people's relations to one another rather…