Described here is a curricular effort to respond to the need for more adequate preparation of students in the areas of negotiating skills, cooperative efforts, and the nature of professional work. Successful cooperative and negotiative efforts require a high level of skills--skills that the isolated nature of our educational structure seldom…

The purpose of this book is to examine the nature and operation of power in interpersonal relations. Designed for general use in communication, political science, business, and the social sciences, this book shows how power operates and affects us in everyday encounters. The first section of the book is an historical overview of the influences of…

A SOCIAL STRATA STUDY WAS MADE OF SELECTED HIGH SCHOOLS. THE INSTRUMENTS, METHODS OF CLIQUE AND CROWD DETECTION, AND THE STRUCTURE OF PARTICIPATION WERE ALL REPORTED. EMPIRICAL EXPLORATIONS INCLUDED CULTURAL AND POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS, SOCIAL PARTICIPATION, AND POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS. THE STUDY WAS CONDUCTED PRIMARILY FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPING…

AN EXPERIMENT TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT INCREASES IN SELF-ACCEPTANCE RESULTING FROM SENSITIVITY TRAINING HAVE THE THEORETICALLY PREDICTABLE BUT INDIRECT EFFECT OF REDUCING RACE PREJUDICE. THERE WERE 50 VOLUNTEERS, AGED FROM 23 TO 59, 8 OF WHOM WERE NEGROES. MOST HAD AT LEAST A B.S. DEGREE. THEY LIVED TOGETHER FOR 2 WEEKS MEETING IN FIVE T GROUPS,…

When categorized into one of two groups, subjects preferred information indicating ingroup similarity and outgroup dissimilarity. When categorized into a single group, subjects preferred maximum information about others regardless of content. No preference occurred when subjects were not categorized into a group. Thus, preferred information…

This study examined the public behavior between adults and children in 557 groups and evaluated the effects of group size, number of children (16 years of age and younger), and number of adults on the cross-age interactions. For a 10-second period, all social interactions between members of a group were recorded using an unobtrusive observational…

The paper explicates the major assumptions of reference-group theory in order to deduce hypotheses with direct application to studies of classroom ability grouping. (Author)

This article constitutes the second part of a discussion of the diffusion of Georg Simmel's thought within the American sociological community first initiated in the January issue of this journal (See SO 504 694). His influence is traced with respect to metropolitan mentality, small groups, interpersonal knowledge, conflict, and exchange. (Author)

The four papers presented here include a study of group communication process among college students, a developmental analysis of social interaction, an analysis of environmental impact on interaction, and a methodological discussion of ways of studying interaction. These papers are followed by series of three discussion papers. (PS)

Freedom TREC is an outdoor education facility designed for a local high school that now serves as a demonstration center. (DS)

Basic recommendations for the principal attempting to establish productive community relationships. (Author/MLF)

Discusses objectives of teachers of a college level psychology course dealing with group dynamics. A major problem encountered in teaching a group dynamics course in an academic setting is creating a balance between cognitive/intellectual and affective/personal learning. (Author/DB)

This one-day workshop for college students focused on feelings about families. A variety of exercises is presented, some dealing with families of origin and others with potential families in the future, and the feedback of participants is reported. (Author/DS)

When used in combination, the criteria of positive solidarity and anti-institutional orientation can help to refocus the study of social movements towards the analysis of large scale social change outside institutional channels and keep it distinct from the field of collective behavior. (WI)