Organized sport is a social agent for the deliberate socialization of people into the acceptance of our most salient organization form: bureaucracy. (DS)

Young people need to rebel and to progress from childish gullibility, through disillusionment and doubt, to adult discernment. To do this they need standards to rebel against and adult judgments to test, accept, or reject. But educated adults no longer provide such standards and judgments. (Author/JG)

Socialization practices in the moshav are compared with those of kibbutz and city, based on the responses of about 1000 preadolescents to the Cornell Socialization Agent Inventory. The moshav differs from the kibbutz mainly in its reliance on the family as the primary agent of socialization. (JMB)

Contrary to Wynne in another article in this issue, the correction of alienation lies in changing the structure and fabric of society rather than in better socialization of youth. (Author/IRT)

Women athletes are subject to certain types of injury as they enter new sports and develop more aggressiveness in traditional sports. Reasons for increases in certain injuries are explained. (MT)

Discusses data from 4,212 gay males that suggests the viability of several hypotheses regarding the experiences of aging gay males: that certain behaviors are related to subcultural opportunities, that various attitudes are associated with subcultural socialization, and that other issues are understandable in terms of aging and cohort effects.…

Explains the increase in adolescent suicidal behavior reported for most countries in the European Economic Community over the last two decades, within the framework of a social learning theory. A typology of suicidal acts based on an outcome-expectancy model is proposed. (Author/BL)

Assessed the relationship of self-reported symptoms of psychopathology to self-reported alcohol abuse. Participants (N=72) completed a questionnaire. Findings identified several psychopathological areas related to alcohol abuse: social skill deficits, anxiety, addiction proneness, impulse discontrol, and self-destructive ideation. These results…

This article argues that the current Watergate burglary reflects a confusion about individual responsibility that can be traced to the education system. It is stated that teachers see themselves as the agent of political socialization for the student and yet are afraid of controversy. (JA)

This paper describes the methodology of computer simulation experimentation in assessing the socilization of political officials in Seattle, Minneapolis, Vancouver, and Winnipeg. (BB)

A review of The University and Revolution (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1969) by Gary R. Weaver and James H. Weaver, editors. (DB)

A method for teaching social philosophy is described. (CK)