Maternal employment is a part of modern family life, a response to changes such as smaller families and more efficient household management. Not only does maternal employment meet parents' needs, but it is a pattern better suited for socializing the child for the adult role s/he will occupy. (Author/GC)

Introduces findings from an investigation of political education in schools and colleges in the United Kingdom. It focuses on describing and analyzing political learning processes, political socialization, political learning experiences in the classroom, and problems which beset political education programs. (DB)

Describes four activities for use in introductory sociology courses on the college level. Major objectives of the exercises are to challenge assumptions often held by college students and to stress contradictions between ideological justification for a given practice with its operation. (DB)

Dr. Patterson is interviewed regarding his theories of social learning and research on the effective treatment of aggressive children and their families. (JMF)

The research reported here examines the socialization of Indian children and adolescents toward family planning. Taken into account are socioeconomic, political, and religious influences on the attitudes of the subjects studied. (Author/EB)

Five-, eight-, and eleven-year-olds performed object assembly tasks alone, before a neutral observer, or before observers needing to learn about the task. Performances by children in this last condition were consistently superior to those in the other conditions. Neutral audiences had negative effects on eleven-year-olds. (RL)

The article summarizes the developmental processes of adolescents (age 12-18) and reviews literature concerning the adolescent's use of television, newspapers, periodicals, records, and radio. (KC)

Guidelines are offered for the teacher who must modify socially unacceptable behavior in an emotionally disturbed child. (JD)

This study related major parameters of moral character (socialization and empathy) to self-reported drug use by 88 students. Level of socialization correlated significantly with total drugs used, frequency of marijuana use, and number of drug-related social complications. However, empathy did not relate to the drug-use variables examined.…

Family social networks and neighborhoods are suggested as major dimensions of the social environment which facilitate or defer family childrearing processes. These concepts are operationalized by describing the design of a family-oriented early intervention program as an exemplary model of a socio-ecological approach to childhood socialization.…

The author considers the role of the school, the teacher, and the curriculum in socializing children to our heterogeneous society. She outlines the "planned variation" curriculum design of Head Start and Follow Through to illustrate how differing social perspectives lead to the creation of different early curriculum experiences. (SJL)

Reported is a longitudinal study in which families with preschool children were observed, interviewed, and tested over two years following the parents' divorce and compared with a sample of intact families. Findings on the impact of divorce on individuals, on family interactions, and on children's social and intellectual development are presented.…

Outlines a social experiment in which library services were extended to include book circulation and other services to children who were mountain shepherds in Italy. The program was successful in initiating socialization of the young boys with other shepherds and village children. (Author/CWM)

Some schools do a poor job of preparing youth for responsible adulthood. The root problems seem to be failure to perceive adequately the urgency of the socialization problem and the tendency to oversimplify the measures needed to correct the situation. (Author/MLF)

The recent development of correspondence education in China is discussed and the contributions of correspondence education to the revolutionary struggle are assessed. (Author/DB)