This study provides some support for Waller's principle of least interest and Miller and Swanson's conceptualizations. Males rather than females were less interested and committed to continuing their current dating relationships, and those least interested were males who were reared in entrepreneurial homes. (Author)

A humanistic sociology would ask which institutions and social arrangements, supported by which values and norms, promote the capacity and ability of groups and individuals to make free and responsibile choices in light of their needs, to grow, to explore new possibilities, and to do more than simply survive. (Author/JB)

Constructive aspects of parent and handicapped child separation are noted, in addition to suggestions for training and finding babysitters. (KW)

We are a society in transition. Certainly the experience of physics should help us to understand the nature of the transition we now face and to direct it for Man's benefit. The process of transition is of much greater importance than the products. (Author/TS)

The nature of societal differentiation and the meaning and measurement of educational differentiation are studied. (Editor)

A discussion of what Black Elk Speaks" reveals about the social functions of prophecy." (Author/RD)

Investigates experimentally whether classroom enrichment produces only a decrease in aggressive behavior, both a decrease in aggressive behavior and cooperative behavior, or a decrease in aggressive behavior and an increase in cooperative behavior. (JM)

The concept of trial marriage is traced historically and anthropologically. To harness the trend constructively the author recommends that young people who have had a living together experience, evaluate it with a counselor in order to gain insight about their potentialities as mates. (Author)

The data indicate that most teenagers in these two high schools do not go steady." They saw the greatest disadvantage of going steady" as not being able to have a broader relationship with others. (Author)

Hypothesizes that proverbs and poems among nonliterate peoples vary inversely with the user's degree of Westernization. Suggests that the oral tradition in Somalia, East Africa serves different functions for the different social groups such as nomads, semi-nomads, and students. (MB)

The issue of whether or not early adolescence is a transitional or stable period of development may be dependent on our ability to describe ways in which early adolescents are quantitatively and qualitatively different from when they were children and how these early adolescent characteristics are forerunners to the more elaborate constructs of…

A model for viewing adolescent psychosocial development is outlined and used as a framework for reviewing literature. The model assumes that basic changes in adolescents' biological, cognitive, and social capacities reciprocally interact with the social settings of the family, peer group, and school/work to influence transformations in six areas…

Discusses the American view of the role of education in developing Americans. Focuses on Massachusetts, the heart of early American industrialization, which gave prime importance to publicly supported education as a vehicle of social conditioning. (JOW)