Investigated whether families tend to make decisions that provide differential support for career goals of male and female offspring and examined the choices of members about "appropriate" career goals for adolescent females. Results indicated family decisions favored career goals of adolescent males over adolescent females. (Author/RC)

Presents a classification system which presumes that information about families can be seen from three different perspectives (historical, interactional, and existential) and that treatment proceeds from three approaches (understanding, transformation, and identification). Discusses how theories from different schools of thought are substantially…

Today, parents and society share responsibility for educating children to be workers and transmitters of the cultural heritage. Attitudes toward the primacy of the mother's role in child development have changed; now both fathers and mothers need to know more about child rearing. This need should be fulfilled by adult education programs. (SK)

This essay describes the dimensions of political socialization with systematic political education as a major component. Both promote individual acceptance of political norms--particularly where government and school systems are tightly linked. The authors argue that political socialization should promote effective citizenship rather than simply…

Sixty 9-year-old Highland Mayan children whose schooling varied from kindergarten level to third grade were given tests of scene recognition, scene reconstruction, sentence recognition, and story recall. Results demonstrate that in this sample the relationship between schooling and memory test performance is not simply due to family background…

The Life Complexity Inventory was designed and administered to 140 adults in order to investigate those variables present in their day to day experience that might relate either to stability or decline of intellectual ability. Results suggest that individuals with similar life styles display similar ability patterns over time. (Author/GC)

Examines the relationship between socioeconomic status and ethnic characteristics of the family and the female Kenyan student's perception of her career opportunities. Presents 1975 data collected from students in six secondary and higher educational institutions in Kenya. (Author/GC)

The traditional division of labor in the household along sex lines establishes dichotomy for females and males resulting in some men's alienation from the intimacy of the house. This study traces the role of early childhood experiences in shaping this dichotomy and examines adult household patterns which maintain sex role division. (Author)

Criticizes accepted premises regarding family influence on the child: (1) particular external conditions are inevitably associated with fixed consequences for all children; (2) some psychological structures created by early experience are stable over time; and (3) the mother-infant bond is the primary determinant of the child's future…

Forty middle-class mothers and their 12-month-old infants participated in an examination of the extent to which infant sociability and home experiences were correlated with cognitive capacity. (JMB)

Describes the family, the Greek community, and traces his life growing up Greek in America. (AM)

The results of this research study illustrate the dynamics which underlie the formation of black and white adolescent mobility aspirations with regard to expected educational and occupational attainment and actual educational and occupational attainment. (AM)

The result of this research study indicates that black parents have more influence on their children's academic performance in the later grades than they do in the earlier grades, although the magnitude of this influence remains relatively small. (Author)

Addresses a gap in knowledge about the characteristics of adolescents served by court diversion programs by examining randomly selected cases. Presents a characterization of adolescents, their families of origin, employment, offenses, and processing in the diversion system. Findings center on the impact of alcohol, unemployment, and the…