This paper examined the growth of religious questioning in children which does not have the presuppositions of any established religious system such as Christianity and noted the need for research into the internalization of the culturally accepted system. (Author/RK)

The relationship among the family and the bilingual socialization of the child are explored in this sociolinguistic study of a sample of preschool Chinese children. The importance of the family as socializing agent is clarified. (Author/JH)

In spite of the important and almost exalted role of graduate and professional education, little is known about this form of advanced training as a psychological, social, and educational process. This book brings together and analyzes major research efforts aimed at an improved understanding of these elements and suggests ways that graduate and…

The purpose of this research was to ascertain whether the process of political socialization as the transmission of the political culture through schools contributes to the persistence of the American political system in the black community. One hundred and sixty black urban and suburban individuals over age 18 comprised the sample population.…

Survey of historical evidence concerning role of teaching among American political scientists, emphasizing teaching of college undergraduates with students' sociopolitical perspectives foremost in mind. (Author/ND)

Examines the socialization literature on three issues: (1) the extent to which socialization patterns express a distinctive Afro-American culture; (2) whether Afro-American and Euro-American child rearing practices offer significantly contrasting bases for differentiating behavior; and (3) the role of cultural processes and macro-structural…

Data from a survey of black high school seniors is used to test two ideas, it is stated: that (1) explanations of lw self-esteem among blacks are based, to a large extent, on the assumption that whites serve as a significant other for blacks, and (2) that this negatively affects their general level of self-esteem. (Author/JM)

Social, professional, and political factors influencing the Latin American teacher's role as a social change agent are examined. (DE)

A discussion of impulse control among children in the primary grades based on many years of practice at the Yale University Child Study Center Nursery School, four inner city pre-kindergarten programs, and several inner city primary schools; the analysis of a number of impulse ridden children; and, several research projects on impulsivity in…

Argues that the educational system assumes it must prepare students for a highly competitive work society, although the necessity for competition will decline as material necessities and luxuries are increasingly available; as society moves towards a leisure civilization and an equitable distribution of goods, change from competititon to…

An investigation of Catholic high school students to determine if the American high school system discourages extremes in adult-versus peer-orientation polarity by means of socialization. (Author/ND)

Student attitudes and the educational consequences of the introduction of controversial course materials into the social studies curriculum are explored. (Author/DE)

Four forms of individualism (romantic, egoistic, ideological, and alienated) are distinguished and their roots in American psychology traced. In opposition to this theoretically egocentric perspective, a new psychological role theory is espoused and its implications explored with special emphasis on the dilemma of contemporary ambivalence toward…

Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Secondary School Principals (53d, San Francisco, February 28 - March 5, 1969).