Five factors in the socialization of inner-city children significantly account for variance in achievement in the first and second grades. These factors are coping with anxiety by withdrawal, coping with anxiety by agression, alienation, sex, and verbal ability. (RC)

This analysis updates a previous 1958 review of literature on socialization and social class, drawing on more recently published studies and a secondary analysis of a national survey. It is suggested that although various studies have found a statistically significant relationship between social class and the use of corporal punishment, this…

This monograph provides a comprehensive description of the multiple, diverse, and complex systems of child care in Switzerland today. The following topics are discussed: prevailing conceptions of the child-rearing process, the relationship between family and society, socialization, training of personnel, information dissemination, mass media and…

From the moral development scale scoring manual, Kohlberg's published works, and the research of his collaborators and others, an analysis was made of the evidence supporting the hierarchy of moral reasoning and the claims put forth for the cross-cultural universality of the cognitive-developmental theory. (Author/CS)

A three-year study of student attitudes, underway during the Cambodian incursion and the Kent State University and Jackson State College shootings, picked up a change, pervasive, if temporary, in attitudes responsive to those events and compared them with attitudes measured a year before and after. (JH)

On the basis of a representative sample consisting of 45 4th-year forms (1,236 pupils) from primary schools in Hamburg, the relationships between teacher or parent behavior and motivation for lifelong learning, achievement motivation and emotional stability were investigated. (Editor)

The purpose of this research was to test the assumption that a student's conformity with the achievement value expectations of the school depends on congruence between institutional expectations and individual value orientations. (Editor)

Six hundred preadolescents, half from kibbutzin and half from classrooms in Tel Aviv, were asked to describe the frequency of certain socializing behaviors of their parents, peers, teachers, and caregivers. Implications for personality development are discussed. (ST)

Papers delivered at the Scientific Conference of Pedagogical Scholars of Socialist Countries, 1971, deal with the incorporation of current scientific and technological subject matter into school curricula and include a survey of curricula reforms and curricular developments in natural science, mathematics, social and political education, and…

Considered current attitudes toward education and how teachers fit into the picture. (RK)

Three professionals in the field respond to four timely questions regarding counseling with children from culturally different settings. Each has had a long-term interest in elementary school counseling and each represents a minority group. (Author)

This study suggests that, given the way public schools are presently organized, teacher styles seem to make very little difference in the degree to which the traditional values of work, time, authority, order, and perhaps achievement are emphasized. One can infer that children attending public school, in whatever permutation, will find that…

After describing a social learning formulation of the male alcoholic's marriage, this paper reviews the few studies of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) for alcoholics and their wives. Although none of these studies are as rigorous as one might wish and many of them are merely case studies, a review of the literature shows that behavioral marital…

This report explores the acculturation of Korean residents; both Korean families and Korean American families who reside in an academic community (Athens, Georgia) and an urban community (Atlanta, Georgia). The study is based on the view that Korean residents in the United States are a distinctive subgroup that has not yet been studied in terms of…

This essay provides an analytic development of a philosophy of rhetoric which focuses its concern on social reality. According to this philosophy, the activity of the human mind invents symbolic constructions of reality. Primary socialization is interpreted as a rhetorical process which tends to maintain prevailing reality constructions.…