Levels of racial awareness, preferences, and racial identity among non-white children (American Negro, Korean, American Indian) who have been adopted by white families and their white siblings are compared to the reactions of children of the same sex, age range (3-8), and race who have been reared in typical family settings. The major findings are…

Investigated the intercorrelations among tasks that appear to require Piagetian formal reasoning to determine whether formal reasoning is used selectively or all-pervasively. Subjects were 60 undergraduate females. (SDH)

An examination of the control and manipulation of black hero images by the white mass media. (EH)

Theories which hold blacks to be culturally "disadvantaged" or "deficient" lead to erroneous conceptions and harmful educational practices, for they fail to recognize the essentially unique cultural patterns of the black community that make its members distinctively different. If a label is needed, culturally Afro-American is perhaps the best…

Research investigating the development of sex-role identity in children from father-absent families was reviewed using Biller and Borstelmann's (1967) three-fold conceptualization of sex-role identity as sex-role orientation, sex-role preference, and sex-role adoption as an organizational framework. The review revealed that sex-role orientation…

It has been suggested that different forms of organizational commitment have different outcomes as well as different antecedents. To test the hypothesis that instrumental attachment to an organization is associated with members' investments in the organization, and that affective attachment to an organization is influenced primarily by the way the…

Twenty-eight counties of southern and eastern Ohio are part of federally-defined Appalachia. This paper considers whether or not the identity of people in this area is Appalachian, Midwestern, or just plain rural. These counties lie in the unglaciated section of the Allegheny plateau, characterized by steep valleys, narrow ridges, and coal…

A retrospective methodology was used to assess if there are any statistically significant relationships between university students who are in a teacher preparation program or who indicate an interest in becoming a teacher (preservice teachers) compared with those who indicate they are not interested in becoming a teacher (nonteaching students)…

This test was designed primarily for the purpose of assisting social psychologists in researching sex roles and/or sex differences when a nonverbal instrument is desired. The hypothesis was that some objects would be easier for members of one gender to name. The subjects were 30 female and 20 male undergraduate students. Pictures of 65 commercial…

The major problem with Shakespeare for the woman performer is that he treats women as the "Other." Therefore, his women characters lack the completeness of the men; the women become iconistic forces by means of which the men shape themselves, mirrors in which the men more or less accurately see themselves and their desires and fears. If…

Reports the findings of a survey done in 1970 of heads of households in Metropolitan Toronto, in which they responded to an open-ended question concerning their own ethnic identity, after being given a rather broad definition of what was meant by an ethnic group. (Author/JM)

The present study is part of a larger research project which is concerned with the cultural dimensions of interpretations of sexual differentiation in children's drawings. The basic assumption of this study is that the first figure drawn when a child is asked to draw a person is significantly related to, but does not necessarily establish, the…

The findings indicate a lack of the influence of the variable of black identification on outgroup attitudes and willingness to associate. Nor is the contention supported that strong ingroup identification leads to a positive or negative outgroup orientation. The implications of these results for educational implications and minority group agencies…

Between objectivity and subjectivity lies a third choice: the recreation of the relationships between self and literary structure. (JH)

The following question is posed: can a close look into why a person does something which is uncharacteristic or out of character provide a window through which one might view underlying dynamics of that person's ongoing character development? An autobiographical account is provided. (Author/BJG)