The role of inhibition as related to sex differences in aggression was investigated using 20 nursery school and 20 second grade children. A dart gun was employed, with choices of four targets--drawings of a boy, a girl, a zebra, and an object. There were three sessions and eight target choices per session. Choice of the human target was assumed to…

Academic achievement in males is quite consistently predictable from locus of control scores, although this is not true for females. Reasons suggested for this apparent inconsistency include the use of externality as a shield against failure, the instruments used and a "fear of success" in women. Several studies with college and elementary school…

In investigating emotional phenomena in humans, overt-behavioral, self-report, and physiological responses all often seem to be appropriate measures. However, experience has shown that these different kinds of response often do not vary together. It may be that these measures disagree because they are related to different underlying variables. To…

This study of graduate student socialization in Departments of Political Science is based on data collected in 14 departments of broadly representative Ph.D. granting institutions in the U.S. All students and faculty in all departments were sent a questionnaire asking about their attitude toward the profession, their program of study, their…

GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4 and 5. SUBJECT MATTER: Urban politics and neighborhood planning. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: This teacher's manual is designed to accompany a workbook (SP 007 387) developed for New York public school students. Following introductory material this manual is divided into three sections: curriculum materials for…

This report on youth and politics was one of a series of working papers on the activities, and behavior of young people between 15 and 21 years of age. It was intended to provide background information while the Massachusetts Committee on Children and Youth prepared a comprehensive report on the status of children and youth in the Commonwealth for…

When evaluating alternative designs of subscriber terminals that have been proposed for two-way cable television (CATV) systems we need to use political as well as economic criteria. The political objective a two-way communication system should serve is making government more responsive to feedback from citizens. At the national and state level…

This resource guide was prepared to provide government and political science teachers with information on recent trends and developments in political science, sources of classroom materials, and a listing of professional references. It is hoped that the guide will be helpful to social studies supervisors, librarians, political science educators…

Adult education in Sweden is closely interrelated with the prevailing ideology in that society. The predominant ideology in Sweden consists of firm and active commitment to lifelong learning, achieving the 'learned society', socioeconomic and political democracy, full employment, individual growth and dignity, and overall egalitarianism. Welfare,…

Studies of agenda setting, which asserts that audiences note what is emphasized in the news media and incorporate a similar set of emphases into their personal agendas, are reviewed in this essay. Separate sections consider early empirical evidence in support of the concept; contingent conditions; differing effects of newspapers and television;…

The mass media were analyzed as agents of socialization in a questionnaire study of 80 foreign student couples. Results indicated the availability of mass media to foreign student families was high, but that patterns of usage were related to English proficiency. Native English speakers were more likely to watch television for relaxation while…

Based on a view of humankind, the authors outline six assumptions about learners and the process of learning: (1) direct experience provides the impetus and substance from which learners make their personal meanings; (2) experience contributes best to continued learning when it promotes the development of thinking and feeling processes; (3) the…

An overall program for political and vocational education in elementary schools is discussed. (DE)

The article discusses ways in which schools sometimes function as agents of social control and perpetuators of injustice, and recommends that resolving problems of injustice be made a first priority of educators. (CD)

Drawing on a year long ethnographic study of a middle sized university community, this paper views entry into the counter culture as a process of self-transformation bearing similarity to therapeutic practices; major personal change strategies involve desocialization from conventional culture and from major social institutions--thus affording…