Identification with academics, or the extent to which academic is central to self-concept, has been linked to academic outcomes conceptually and empirically, at least in samples of white college students. However, Claude Steele's Stereotype Threat Hypothesis (1997) proposes something of a racial paradox, by which the most identified students of…

The purpose of this study was to determine the problem areas of adopted children in Pampanga, Philippines using the Mooney Problem Checklist (MPCL). The participants of this study were 40 adopted children whose ages range from 10 to 15 years of age and who reside in Pampanga, a province in the Philippines. The participants were asked to answer the…

The paper examines the development of factions in one Alaskan village and their impact on a series of teachers, since how teachers and other outsiders identify and deal with these factional groups is a crucial factor in their acceptance by villagers. (KM)

A report by the Educational Resources Information Center at the National Council of Teachers of English; ERIC abstracts of documents pertinent to this topic are included. (RD)

Paper presented at the joint meeting of the Ohio Valley Sociological Society and the Midwest Sociological Society (Indianapolis, Ind., May 1, 1969)

Article based on an address at the Department of Elementary School Principals (NEA) Annual Meeting, Las, Vegas, Nevada.

Identity is the complex way a person identifies with, and is identified by, his environment. Multiple identities result from the many ways a person has been successfully identified. Identities coexist; sometimes the dominance of one over others becomes evident, and a vertical structure of identities arises. (CS)

Discusses the idea that for many Black adolescents the use of creole is an assertion of identity and cultural difference. Examines the use of and attitudes toward creole by both Black and White adolescents in London. (EKN)

Asserts that the existence of Blacks is suppressed by a White dominated world. Argues that social science as it presently exists is an inappropriate superstructure for the development of a psychology of liberation and presents "cultural science" as an alternative model. (Author/DA)

Males from rural economically deprived school districts, were surveyed a fourth and final time 10 years after high school graduation. Results show over the 10-year period the occupational and educational achievements and aspirations have been significantly higher for the high-identification with their father group than for the low-identification…

A middle-class adolescent peer group was examined, using ethnographic techniques, to describe the group's relationship to adults and to uncover the adult reference group after which the group modeled itself. Although this group was organized to help poor people, it modeled itself after middle-class adult managers. (Author/GDC)

Only children and their parents may have special problems settling the issues of parent-child identification and attachment. Children without siblings and their parents face a continuing oedipal triangle unless the parents maintain united partnership at best, or at least are able to encourage independence in the child. (Author)

Black undergraduates were tested for their social distance between their own and other ethnic groups. High need for affiliation and high self-esteem were related to small social distance between own and other groups. Low need for affiliation and low self-esteem produced large social distance. These data have implications for occupational mobility.…