Using attribution theory and social learning theory, a conceptual model explaining how attributional and efficacy questions influence family conflict attitudes and behaviors is presented. The effect of causal attributions on blaming behavior and generalizations is examined. More attention should be paid to individual cognitions in family conflict.…

Suggests basic competencies for civic participation and ways these skills may be taught in the elementary grades. (SJL)

After reviewing the socialization models of Berger and Luckmann, Speier, and Piaget, the author relates the drawing process to these theories as a form of social interaction, citing changes in drawing style and subject matter with gains in social maturity. She concludes with implications for art educators. (SJL)

Examines how an English comprehensive school attempted to offer equal educational opportunity to and reconcile the social differences between children from two different social classes. (Author/IRT)

Behavioral science strategies offer an alternative to bureaucratic and political strategies. The weakness of a bureaucratic or political approach, the professor as social learner and as problem-solving adult, strategies for increasing faculty productivity, and ways for creating a learning institution are discussed. (MLW)

This study identified the process by which sex-typing occurs within the field of medicine. It concludes that acceptance within a profession depends upon establishing a role identity and occupying an organizational space that leads to acquisition of skills, attitudes, and knowledge necessary for professional role occupancy. (Author/KC)

Noting that, as a developing socialist society, China requires an educational system which develops in the individual both political loyalty and technical skill, the author surveys China's efforts, from 1949 to the present, to implement these two potentially conflicting educational objectives. (SJL)

Surveys changes in education in Nigeria after independence. Major changes involve objectives--students are educated now to become citizens of a young and growing country rather than individuals colonized by a nation with a different culture and religion. Emphasis is placed on social studies, particularly citizenship education. (Author/DB)

The author argues that accumulation of knowledge should be the primary aim of social studies teaching and that the formation of attitudes and the clarification of values should be considered incidental to that, for attitudes and values not based on considerable knowledge are idle. (Author/SJL)

The process of education inevitably involves the adoption and possibly the transmission of values. Much of adult education, the author says, contributes to the maintenance of cultural and social norms. Drawing upon concepts of socialization theory, he urges the exploration of the varieties of ideology implicit in adult education and education's…

Presents multivaried strategies for intervention which integrate major behavioral and family systems treatment techniques. A discussion of the development of family rules from a behavioral point of view is presented as an example of conceptual integration. (Author)

Rapprochement among competing methods and views of marital and family therapy constitutes a major creative challenge for the field in the 1980s. Although integrative efforts have begun, psychodynamic understanding of intimate relationships is necessary for continuation of integrative process growth. (Author/NRB)

Data from a fifteen-year panel study of males, age 17 in 1957 and age 32 in 1972, are adduced to examine a social psychological theory of the status attainment process. Estimates are compared with those based on similar equation models reported in previous longitudinal research. (Author/EB)

Investigates the impact of the first televised debate in the 1976 presidential campaign on the political attitudes of 195 college students. Concludes that viewing the debate had only a limited impact, which can be attributed to the general problems of attitude change and the specific content of the debates. (RL)

Reviews various perspectives on sex discrimination in schools and colleges, presents case studies of sex discrimination in the English educational system, and distinguishes between sex discrimination and gender forming. Journal availability: see SO 507 421. (DB)