Research among male juvenile delinquents in a custodial training facility showed that: (1) the subjects exhibited attitudes that reflected their "prisonization" (assimilation into the inmates' nonformal normative system); (2) many of the juveniles felt alienated from the institutional environment; and (3) prisonization often led to reinvolvement…

Examines how the current disarray in American schools and in other social institutions affects students, the schools, and society in general. Offers suggestions for aligning the schools and other institutions on a path aimed at socializing youth. (FL)

Part-time employment, drug use, and remoteness of the political process make young people increasingly listless and cynical. (Author)

Reviews the increasing separation of contemporary families from the community in terms of alienation. Suggests that the isolation of the nuclear family exerts a pathological influence on the mental health of families and of individual family members. Urges family therapy to exert a significant corrective influence on isolation factors. (Author/JAC)

Discusses the meaning crisis in modern society in terms of information overload. Points out reasons for meaning lag: (1) slowness of meaning formation; (2) sparseness of social networks; (3) substitution of meaning of a lower quality as a compensation for lost meaning; and (4) information becoming noiselike. (PD)

Discusses the problem of alienation of foreign scholars and workers in West Germany. The author concludes that traditional German racism has changed to national indifference. He proposes the formation of enclaves or circles in which foreigners of different nationalities can regularly come together with interested Germans. (AM)

Defines the term "burnout," why it happens, and its effects. Techniques for identifying burnout in oneself, how to protect against burnout, and how to improve the organization's defense against burnout are discussed. (CT)

Reports that general semantics instruction provided to eighth- and ninth-grade students who were alienated from school proved successful in decreasing feelings of powerlessness, self-estrangement, and cultural estrangement from school. (GT)

Control mothers reported stronger feelings of personal worth based on their perceptions of others' evaluations of them. Abusing mothers scored higher on feelings of social alienation. On the Self-Esteem scale, no significant differences were found between groups. (Author)

Alienated adolescent girls tend to be sexually active, tend not to use contraception effectively, and tend not to terminate pregnancy. Although they welcome a baby as a solution to lifelong problems, their poverty and drug abuse, inadequate nutrition, and lack of prenatal care put offspring at high risk. (Author/NRB)

Questions the basic approach and findings of the Gerbner et al.'s study of the effects of television viewing on viewers' feelings of fear, suspicion, and alienation. Demonstrates that the cultivation effect is not supported by the data and outlines three plausible explanations for the absence of cultivation effects. (JMF)

Based on a study which examined the careers of Black and White inner-city teachers, this article reports on findings relative to attitudes and beliefs and to teacher behaviors as they relate to student relations. (CM)

A unique theatrical presentation, "Miss Margarida's Way," reveals some interesting characteristics of its audience when it casts them back into a classroom situation. (LH)

Reasons for teachers' professional and personal disillusionment are explored, and some possible solutions are offered. (LH)

This article is based on a study, conducted by the author, that assessed student perceptions of humanizing and dehumanizing factors in secondary schools. (Editor)