Presents the results of the application of the analysis of the social assimilation of immigrants to the processes whereby beginning teachers transfer their membership from the university student subculture to the professional secondary teacher subculture. Extends the social assimilation framework from the study of immigrants to the general field…

A program for placement of retarded children in foster homes has proven effective in the development of socialization skills for the first three children involved. (ST)

A 10 percent random sample survey which elicited the political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the social backgrounds, of students at the University of Chicago, in 1970, produced data indicating that there is very little direct effect on activism by social background. (Author/JM)

Examined the nature of teacher responses to preschoolers' problem and preacademic behavior as a function of sex. Teachers generally responded more frequently to boys. (ST)

A series of social interaction situations representing the four emotions of happy, afraid, sad, and angry were administered to 288 American children and 288 Chinese children. (Editor)

Considers the particular problems that Latin America culture faces in its attempts to indoctrinate its youth with political values. (RK)

Article presents a critical position on education as a necessity for life. (RK)

The main purpose of the project described in this article was to give young people an opportunity to live out and identify with an adult role, that of a teacher in a primary school being taken as one example. (Author)

The sources of student discontent are the major concern of this paper. (DM)

An activity requiring students to image the world's population reduced to the size of a small town stimulates understanding of true minority groups, of diverse interests. (JB)

Black children, like all children in all cultures, acquire the attitudes, values, and behaviors of the culture in which they grow up, including those related to government and its administration. (Author)

This paper reports on anthropological investigations of communes on the West Coast of the United States. Described are the economic bases, ideologies, sources and procedures of recruitment, leadership and authority patterns, marital and parent-child relationships, and problems associated with socialization. (Author)