Reports a continuing longitudinal study begun in 1967 of attitudinal and behavioral change among recruits in the Philadelphia Police Department. Behavioral components are secrecy and mandatory mutual assistance. Comparisons are made with attitudes of detectives and experienced Patrolmen. (DB)

Videotapes of two 17-month old children -- each child sometimes described as a boy and sometimes as a girl -- were shown to 85 adult middle-class subjects, who rated attributes of the children on questionnaires containing sex role items. (Authors/RY)

Discusses how differing cognitive style in adolescents relates to their adaptation to pubescent body change. (NH)

Discusses problems of professional identity, Competence, and involvement in campus activities, all with view toward effecting changes necessary to move ahead with the times. (CJ)

Data analysis for the American and Greek cultures indicate following trends: (1) parents of both sexes tend to define roles in terms of instrumental and expressive components, suggesting that Parsonian typology, if valid at all, applies more to lower and working class; (2) no significant social differences exist; and (3) family modernization along…

This article examines the stereotypes of women found in six recent marriage and family texts. The paper demonstrates that so called "value free" social science is full of myths and folklore about the female, which are presented as factual, and are used to justify her subordinate status. (Author)

Indicates briefly that the field of student personnel work is in trouble, has always been in trouble, and will be extinct unless it takes positive action soon. (Author/CJ)

Proposes notes toward a theory in an effort to explain how and why people come to perceive certain other people as they do within the context of the school as an organization. (LN)

Sex-role Stereotype Questionnaire of 122 bipolar items was given to clinicians. Hypotheses confirmed and possible reasons for effects of double standard of health are discussed. (Author)