Predicts multiple, far-reaching and profound social changes in American society resulting from the growth of feminism which advocates a new and human ethos based on an end to stereotypes, hierarchies, power-based relationships and force. Topics discussed include Federal policies toward women, the effects of feminism on men and building a new…

This paper concerns the variety of responses women commonly make to provocation--to frustration, thwarting, hurt, deprivation, and other conditions which usually lead to some kind of emotional arousal, the experience of anger, and possibly aggression. Gender differences (culturally shaped) are reviewed where relevant, and a brief review of the…

In response to Maccoby and Jacklin's (1974) conclusion that sex differences in aggression must be biological in origin, we suggest alternative social-learning mechanisms to explain the differences. These mechanisms include: (1) punishment for aggression increases aggression in boys, particularly because boys do not identify with the punisher; (2)…

Socialization to the retirement role, as Goffman suggests, is a good example of social situations which fit the model of "cooling the mark out," an expression borrowed from the confidence rackets to indicate persuading the victim to take his loss quietly and go home. Retirement needs to be examined separately for men and women because of the great…

The intent of this book is to present the developmental stages of discipline and a conceptual framework for the role of the teachers. Chapters cover the nature of discipline, discipline and development, discipline and the curriculum, teaching (including teacher authority), lack of attention and teacher expectation, discipline in special settings…

Asserts that schools tend to reject pupil's culture, and seek to replace it with values, both middle class and egalitarian, which are not effectively conveyed, and advocates that the subject matter and techniques of education should be revalued, with the revalued material being made accessible to all pupils. (Author/JM)

Describes a program of socialization therapy instituted for day-care geriatric participants identified as socially disengaged from both family and social roles, available through the geriatric center. Over a period of several months both individual role changes and changes in the group patterns of communication and interaction were observed.…

Research indicating significant differences between men and women as they function as agents of political socialization in the social studies classroom is provided. (Author/DE)

Although community colleges claim to reduce class distinctions, they actually preserve the status quo by socializing and acculturating members of the lower classes to the middle class way of life. They serve the interests of society's controlling classes and help to make students docile and complacent; they have done nothing to prepare students to…

Relationship of USSR's Academy of Science to landmarks of history, Socialist construction, and the present. (ND)

A comprehensive overview of significant research on intervention programs for high risk infants and young children. (CS)

From "Sovetskaia Pedagogika, 1968, No. 4.

Presented at Joint meeting of the American School Health Association and the School Health Section of the American Public Health Association, Detroit, Michigan, November 11, 1968.

A prototype is a theoretical standard against which real people can be evaluated. To derive a prototype of a lonely person, 40 students were asked to describe a lonely person whom they knew. All descriptions were studied by judges who formed a final listing and frequency of all identified features. The 18 features which formed the prototype fell…