Examines the hazards of teaching school children to have unquestioning trust in the government and its leaders. Suggests that students should be taught the actual rather than an idealized mechanism version of the American politics, and also the importance of the democratic citizen as both supporter and critic of the system. (MK)

This study investigated the effect of an interaction between relatively active and relatively quiet boys on their joint activity level. (Author/RY)

High self-concepts significantly associated with (1) high reading and arithmetic achievement, (2)or self-concepts associated with feminity. (MH)

Discusses the role of general and technical education in forming the Soviet citizen, and is directed to past performances and future directions of Soviet education. Special concern is given to the function that educational science can have on improving education. (CB)

Extensive cross sectional data suggest a real continuity between prepubertal attitudes and experience and those of adolescence. The preteen years (10-13) represent a period of preparation for later heterosexual involvement. These findings suggest need to modify traditional points of view regarding patterns of sociosexual development. (Author/CJ)

An analysis of survey data to assess the sophistication and antecedents of high school students' attitudes toward compliance with laws. Reveals that a large number of the students have not internalized any values by which they can evaluate decisions concerning compliance, and that the attitudinal antecedents of compliance are quite different for…

Anomie theory holds that the provision of new resources and skills to an inarticulate and non-participatory population can produce two distinct responses: increased conformity or increased and more efficient use of deviant methods. Data on vocational education students suggest that there is such a differential reaction to formal training in the…

A plea is made for teaching social studies through the inquiry method in order to develop a solid foundation for Communist ideology. Rote memorization of Communist principles is discouraged. Instead the social sciences are seen as the way to instilling in the student an inclination to analyze societal problems toward the end of moving the…

In light of the goal of the Social Studies, the development of good citizens, the author explores the character of a necessary and sufficient" social studies program and its relationship to the Social Sciences. (JB)

Outlines the Marxist concept of individual freedom and the deviations which developed in Czechoslovakia unde Dubcek. (DM)