A mother of a hearing-impaired two year old offers examples of utilizing siblings (who have learned sign language) to foster the language development and socialization of the younger child. (DB)

Young adults were asked about their political attitudes in three interviews over a seven-year period. Case studies of three of these young adults describe the interplay between the personal and social contexts of their lives and their interpretations of national and international issues. (BC)

Surveys of 21 chief executive officers and 1,565 business communication students found strong agreement in both groups' opinions of the importance of verbal and nonverbal communication skills. They disagreed in two areas related to oral communication and social sensitivity. (SK)

The predictive validity of several theoretical factors drawn from control, social learning, and differential association theories for explaining adolescent sexual behavior was studied with 1,478 adolescents. The single factor of differential association with peers accounted for most of the respective variances on frequency of sexual intercourse…

Notes that parents and family play important role in how adolescents' drinking behavior develops. Presents two case examples, one of problem drinker and one of sensible drinker. Discusses differences in socialization and structure between these families. Contends that optimal family influences are important factors in protecting against…

Traditionally conceived, mentoring has a male orientation that ignores women's experience as "same" and "other" in academia and the problems of men mentoring women and of women mentors socializing mentees into acceptance of the patriarchal system. An alternative view values women's unique position and critiques existing power structures. (SK)

Reviews book addressing parenting and socialization of boys. Describes text as "provocative" by challenging male attitudes toward parenting. Suggests that readers typically will not agree with author's contentions and that males may become uncomfortable, angry, and defensive. (CRR)

Examined the evidence for the reciprocity of negative affect between mothers and young children in disciplinary encounters. Although children responded contingently and reciprocally to maternal negativity, they also reacted negatively to maternal positive affect. (SH)

Carnegie reports have long envisioned U.S. schools as socially efficient mechanisms for sorting and socializing students for future positions in the existing social and economic structure. Although "Turning Points" proposes bottom-up reforms, it uses top-down methods--an elite panel, a glitzy report, and a big press conference aimed at…

Comments on the monograph reported in this issue. Stresses that the monograph illustrates the difficulty of measuring gender stereotypes; provides insight on activity preferences in middle childhood; considers the role of affect in sex typing by distinguishing affective from cognitive influences; encourages broad-based theories to account for sex…

The relation of compliance to comprehension in toddlers of 12-18 months was studied. Requests were made to children in naturalistic play situations, and children's responses were coded. Significant shifts in the categories of compliance-comprehension and noncompliance-noncomprehension were found. (BC)

Examined fraternity membership and sexual aggression. Findings from male undergraduates (83 fraternity members and 178 independents) revealed that fraternity members were significantly more likely than independents to engage in nonphysical coercion and to use drugs and alcohol as sexual strategy but did not differ significantly in their use of…

In social learning theory, perception of self-efficacy derives from accomplishments, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and physiological states. Four corresponding instructional methods (practice, modeling, suggestion, climate setting) can be designed to ensure transfer of learning. (SK)

Home schooling, an alternative involving about 1 million students annually, walks a fine line in an educational reform era. Home-schooling families have succeeded in establishing their constitutional right to educate their children and have proven their educational programs' legitimacy with achievement test results and with successful "graduates."…

Argues that any comprehensive theory of peer socialization requires attention to these five constraints: (1) characteristics of the influence source; (2) characteristics of the children being socialized; (3) age constraints on peer influences; (4) paradigm considerations; and (5) domain relevance. (SD)