Providing a framework for a symposium exploring the influence of physical attractiveness on the socialization process, this paper (1) offers a working definition of physical attractiveness, (2) reviews stereotypes associated with attractiveness, and (3) discusses a social network perspective on the influence of attractiveness. Physical…

Situational socialization goals were investigated as determinants of parental choice of disciplinary technique. It was predicted that parents would tend to use techniques such as reasoning when they had long-term compliance goals for their children and power-assertive techniques when they had short-term compliance goals. A total of 64 mothers and…

Discusses institutional tension between whether to accept creative, innovative teaching or to protect the status quo and the standardized curriculum. (CD)

The article argues that racial and ethnic prejudices have persisted in both society and schools, and suggests the need for a realistic reappraisal of authentic cultural pluralism. (CD)

This paper examines differential attitudes toward the use in war of nuclear weapons among age strata, analyzed from the perspective of three political generations: "Dissent" (those born 1943-1949), "Cold War" (those born 1927-1942), and "World War II" (those born before 1927). The generation of "Dissent" was found to be least warlike in terms of…

Somehow ways had to be found to assimilate the millions of immigrants, and the schools were assigned to take the lead. (Editor)

The author develops a general equation specifying the conditions under which parents influence the party identification and certain issue attitudes of their adolescent children. Independent variables included in the equation are family interaction, political interest, issue salience to parent, and accuracy of the adolescent's perception of the…

Scientific-technological progress and its social consequences are clarified in relation to the moral practices and conditions of socialist society. (Author/KM)

Topics are: exposition of ten features in making concrete the unity of school and life, the nature of general education, the unity of scientific training and ideological education, as well as the connection between the struggle of the working class and the teaching of Russian. (Text is in German.) (IFS/WGA)

After seeing a keen interest stimulated by a residential course of political training, the executive of the Youth Movement (Democrazia Cristiana) in the province of Reggio Emilia (Italy) decided to abandon the traditional training methodology, which consisted of one or two residential courses evey year on current political issues on the party's…

This document describes a 36-hour, 6-day workshop which focuses on gender role conflict of adult men and women and which was designed to help participants analyze their gender role socialization and gender role conflict. Section I enumerates the overall assumptions of the workshop, including perspectives about gender roles, gender role conflict,…

To show how Hugh Blair's treatise on rhetoric helped shape the patriarchal context in which women write and to suggest some considerations for modern teachers of writing, it will be useful to look at the ways 18th-century belletristic rhetoric responded to the disruption occasioned by women's entry into public discourse. Blair's work, the most…

Nursing role conceptions of registered nursing (RN) students were compared with those of generic students in the baccalaureate program at South Dakota State University. The study population consisted of 76 students. Responses were obtained from four groups of students using a quasi-experimental pretest/posttest group design. Factors positively or…

This study examines the socialization and enculturation process by which one becomes a school board member, using adult socialization and small group theory to construct a model of the role personalization process. Thirteen new school board members in seven Arizona school districts were interviewed indepth, from the announcement of their candidacy…

Most research on teacher education has taken a functionist approach to socialization, emphasizing the importance of moulding individuals to the norms of the profession. Weaknesses have been noted in this approach, and recommendations have been made which call for a theoretical and empirical reorientation to the study of teacher socialization which…