The hypothesis that a cross-national interaction increases ethnic role salience was investigated in a laboratory setting in Australia. Among other findings, Asian subjects gave more ethnic responses than Australian subjects did, this effect being mainly accounted for by differences in perceived ethnic role attribution. (DM)

Seeks to provide a descriptive survey of some aspects of the integration and school attainment of immigrant children or children of immigrants in secondary schools. Also investigated possible social factors that could cause differences between students of different ethnicities and between these and student members of the Australian host society.…

This article, in reviewing the historical meaning of hair, suggests that the wearing of long hair by young men today represents social ideologies rather than sex symbols. (Author/CJ)

Using traditional anthropological methods of field study of families and living with a Black welfare family and a Caucasian family provided bases for developing an analysis of the socialization patterns. Implications of these patterns for family planning, or the lack of family planning, are discussed. (Author)

A modified set of criteria based on sociology is suggested as a framework for evaluating the social implications of educational software. Six analytic categories are discussed: language usage, knowledge, ideology, profit, culture, and ethics. Procedures for applying the critical framework are outlined, and 32 references are listed. (MBR)

The theory of the lexical bar is introduced, based on research in England and Australia. A semantic barrier exists in the English lexicon, separating the lexes of conservative peripheral dialects from those of dominant central dialects, producing differential educational attainment, and reproducing class-based division of labor. (MSE)

Theorizes that the evolution of psychological counseling (from psychoanalysis to trait-and-factor counselng to behavior modification) follows a cyclical pattern based on the repetitive cycles of Western culture, in which faith, logic and power succeed each other as the dominant structuring principles. (WAS)

The Leisure Activity Survey is a large national data set collected in 1982 by the Bureau of the Census for the National Endowment for the Arts. Selected preliminary findings are discussed and several other uses of the data set are suggested. (Author/RM)

Over the past ten years, the inferior social status of musicians in several Asian countries has improved. The social history and contemporary status of musicians and the impact of the mass media on the social role of music in Asian countries are described. (AM)

Reviews the literature on the use of the structural approach in archaeology and discusses how it can be applied to extrapolate larger social patterns from the artifacts of individual households. Archaeological evidence of the American colonial period shows how changes in household lifestyles reflect changes in colonial culture. (AM)

Discusses how familial cultural, linguistic, and social traditions are perpetuated through continuing observance and repetition over the years. (AN)