Purpose: The purpose of this study was to discover nurse educators' perceptions about the culture of nursing and how they bring students into that culture. Background: Although the extant literature addresses the process of socialization to the profession, literature exploring socialization as enculturation is scant. Nurse educators'…

To facilitate comparison across cultures, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been developing a universal measure of quality of life (QOL) called the WHOQOL Questionnaire. This questionnaire contains 24 facets organized into six broad domains: physical, psychological, level of independence, social relationships, environment, and…

The kind of stresses members of subcultures (the culture of poverty and the counter culture) experience and the coping mechanisms, defined as cultural lead'', they evolve may be indications of how the bulk of the populations of complex societies will cope with accelerating technical and social change in the future. (Author/JB)

Members and nonmembers of the punk subculture in Los Angeles, California, identified musical bands as being punk or nonpunk and commented on punk culture themes. Results indicated the existence of a private code that expresses the punk style and focal concerns (including fear), and distinguishes punk from the mainstream culture. (MJL)

Presents a study of Lithuanian refugees involving 24 women and spanning 16 years, from the original study done in 1957 in Chicago, to the follow-up study of 14 of the same respondents done in 1973-74. Describes their process of acculturation in different life areas, their attitudes, and their associations. (Executive Office of the AABS, 231 Miller…

The author contends that effective counseling with minority group children is based on the knowledge, respect, and skill of the person attempting to counsel them. Counselors are not needed to institutionalize, but rather to help each client become a productive and worthwhile individual in his own particular context. (Author)

The various youth cultures are described in regard to their sexual attitudes and behaviors. Publicity given to the minority cultures through the media has falsely led the public to believe their behaviors are typical. (CJ)

The concept of culture as developed by the deaf community is explored as an anthropological concept, noting the approximately 250 definitions of the term "culture." The article argues that the concepts of integrity and autonomy are the real issues of importance. (Author/DB)

Challenges the notion that a lexical code or argot necessarily defines the parameters of a sub-cultural group, and illustrates the challenge with a discussion of language particular to the homosexual community. (CLK)

A sociocultural approach takes into account how literacy is acquired and used in social contexts. Socially determined meanings of literacy practices and the different ways cultures are valued reflect tensions between practical consciousness and official or dominant consciousness. Literacy education should recognize literacy as a cultural practice…

Explores the street life of an adolescent subculture through field study of the Canadian West Coast punk rock subculture. Demonstrates through observation of the members, their behavior and attitudes, and the reactions of others to them, that their activities both represent, and are consequences of, resistance to the dominant order. (Author/JS)

Designed for elementary and secondary school social studies educators, this examination of the beliefs, values, customs, and philosophies of diverse groups of Mennonites living in the United States focuses specifically on major differences between and among the Holdeman Mennonites, the Hutterites, the General Conference Mennonites, the Mennonite…

Participant observation and author introspection were used to collect data in this study of nonverbal communication among Italian Americans in three large American cities. Discussion is given to kinesics (gestures and signs), haptics (touch), proxemics (interiors of homes, exteriors of homes, and spatial arrangements at a wedding dinner), and…

Argues that the use of the concept of youth culture has become unproductive in the development of an adequate sociology of youth. This is based on the contention that the concept is ambiguously related to the sociological concept of subculture under which it is supposed to be subsumed. (Author/AM)

The cultural distinction between Western and Middle Eastern Jews in Israel is a product of underlying cultural differences in mediating familial factors such as interdependence, size, and delegation of authority, as well as peer exposure. Middle Easterners were more cooperative than Westerners in rural settings, but not in urban areas. (Author/LHW)