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Takata, Susan R. – Teaching Sociology, 1997
Contends that the game of "musical chairs" demonstrates how students learn about competition versus cooperation as well as a variety of sociological concepts and theories. Outlines material requirements and rules for playing the game, and suggests methods for post-game debriefings. Notes sociological applications and implications that can be…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Conflict, Cooperation, Educational Games

Cobb, Jill Cockrel; Cohen, Robert; Houston, David A.; Rubin, Elizabeth C. – Child Study Journal, 1998
Examined fourth, fifth, and sixth graders' self-conceptualizations about their own appearance in relation to peer evaluations of social behaviors. The children also indicated how important they believed appearance to be for peer relationships. Found that the association of appearance self-discrepancies and particular behavior dispositions occurred…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades

Salend, Spencer J. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 1999
Offers educators and families a variety of strategies to help facilitate the development of friendships among students with disabilities and their typical peers. Activities to teach students about individual differences, music and art activities to promote friendships, and sample get-acquainted and class-cohesiveness activities are listed. (CR)
Descriptors: Art Activities, Classroom Techniques, Consciousness Raising, Disabilities
McCollum, Kelly – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1999
Colleges and universities are finding that ways to misbehave in computer-mediated communication come along faster than institutions can create policies to deal with them. Although most schools have acceptable-use policies, technological advances change the environment quickly and require flexible policies. Most institutions have created a mix of…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Networks, Computer Security

Fehn, Bruce – OAH Magazine of History, 2000
Provides 11 primary sources that enable students to contemplate how Thomas Jefferson and his slaves produced a culture and community at Monticello (Virginia) and his other plantations. Focuses on Jefferson's relationship with his slaves, particularly addressing Sally Hemming's relationship with Jefferson, in order to study the complicated history…
Descriptors: Black History, Educational Strategies, Interpersonal Relationship, Presidents of the United States

Anderson, Richard C.; Nguyen-Jahiel, Kim; McNurlen, Brian; Archodidou, Anthi; Kim, So-young; Reznitskaya, Alina; Tillmanns, Maria; Gilbert, Laurie – Cognition and Instruction, 2001
Examined social influences on the reasoning and rhetorical strategies of fourth graders. Found that the use of argument stratagems snowballed, there were fewer and fewer lines of discussion between successive appearances of a stratagem, and the snowball phenomenon was more pronounced during discussions with open participation than during…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis, Discourse Modes

Donahue, Michael J.; Benson, Peter L. – Journal of Social Issues, 1995
Presents a literature review on the relationship between religiousness and adolescent well-being. Among the findings is that religiousness is positively associated with prosocial values and behavior; negatively related to suicide ideation and attempts, substance abuse, premature sexual involvement, and delinquency. Policy suggestions are offered…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency

Anderson, Craig A.; Morrow, Melissa – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1995
Extended and tested Deutsch's theory of competition effects. Predicted that people view competitive situations as inherently more aggressive than cooperative ones. Predicted that leading people to think of an aggressive situation in competitive terms would increase aggressive behavior. Increase of kill ratio occurred in absence of changes in…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures

Williams, Barbara; Roberts, Pamela – International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 1995
Participant observation study explored social interactions and friendships among cognitively impaired adult day-care participants. Found clients engage in a variety of social interactions and friendships, enabling them to maintain a sense of self and to adjust to group norms. Discussed general socializing, enduring friendships, helping…
Descriptors: Adult Day Care, Alzheimers Disease, Case Studies, Cognitive Ability

Henning, Kris; And Others – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1996
A community sample of 617 adult women completed a questionnaire about witnessing interparental physical conflicts before the age of 16. Twenty percent of respondents reported witnessing some type of physical conflict between parents. Mean age when physical conflict was first observed was eight. Women who witnessed parental physical conflict…
Descriptors: Adults, Antisocial Behavior, Battered Women, Conflict

Birch, Sondra H.; Ladd, Gary W. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined relations between kindergartners' behavioral orientations and features of kindergartners' subsequent relationship with first-grade teacher. Found that unique associations emerged between early antisocial behavior and less closeness; greater conflict and dependency; and asocial behavior and teacher-child dependency. Prosocial behavior was…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers

Alexander, Kristin J.; Miller, Peggy J.; Hengst, Julie A. – Social Development, 2001
Interviewed 32 families concerning their narrative practices, basic information about the children's story attachments, and the mothers' beliefs and practices concerning their children's attachments. Found that story attachments were social in two ways: Children created relationships with story characters, and formed story attachments with…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attachment Behavior, Caregiver Child Relationship, Diaries

Lockwood, Rebecca L.; Kitzmann, Katherine M.; Cohen, Robert – Child Study Journal, 2001
Examined links between children's sibling and peer relationships. Found that sibling warmth was associated with more positive peer relations; sibling conflict was associated with both positive and negative peer outcomes, independent of sibling warmth; and sibling relationships were not more strongly associated with measures of friendships quality…
Descriptors: Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Environment, Interpersonal Competence

Onuoha, Francis N.; Munakata, Tsunetsugu – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
Adolescents are frequently admonished to be socially assertive in order to confront negative interpersonal peer influences. Since the advent of HIV/AIDS in human social chemistry, the admonition has become more critical than ever. But the warning is often proffered in the misguided presumption that social assertiveness is the all-required…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Assertiveness, Adolescents, Peer Influence
Chen, Xinyin; He, Yunfeng; De Oliveira, Ana Maria; Coco, Alida Lo; Zappulla, Carla; Kaspar, Violet; Schneider, Barry; Valdivia, Ibis Alvarez; Tse, Hennis Chi-Hang; DeSouza, Amanda – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Research on children's loneliness has been conducted mostly in Western, especially North American, cultures. The purpose of the study was to examine relations between loneliness and social adaptation among children and adolescents in four different societies. Methods: A total of 2263 children from grade 3 to grade 6, aged 9 to 12…
Descriptors: Social Adjustment, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context