The study was designed to investigate marriage, work, and motherhood role perceptions of 93 adult women who were mostly graduate students at a large urban university. A secondary purpose was to examine the interaction of age-role status variables and role perceptions. (Author)

The author responds to an article by Dugald Arbuckle by stating that counseling must be only one of the counselor's skills. The counselor must also be teacher, curriculum developer and consultant. A response by Arbuckle to the author's point of view is included. (HMV)

The author reviews some of his observations regarding the responsibility of the physician caring for the hopelessly ill child and presents the resolutions proposed in 1974 by the adhoc committee on Ethics and Survival. (SB)

A survey of deans of colleges of education indicated two major issues: cultivating and promoting progressive ideas among faculty and students, and regret that they had little time for personal pursuits. (JD)

Findings of a study based upon survey data collected from 189 Black high school seniors from a predominantly Black urban school indicate that more than 40 percent of the youngsters ranked above average on the general self-concept of school ability scale, and 54 percent of the remaining students were average. (Author/EB)

A parent recognizes principals as the educational leaders in their communities and urges them to be aware of the importance of parents in making schools effective learning places. (Author/MLF)

Elementary school students (N=67) from three ethnic groups were systematically exposed, over a one-month period, to specially produced television commercials. Results indicate children do learn about occupations from television content and they also learn to stereotype or nonstereotype various occupations based on sex of the TV model. (Author)

The relationship between success and failure in high school and delinquent behavior is examined in this article. (JD)

Three distinctions are proposed to determine necessary efforts to improve the relationship between police and the public: first whether groups within the public have contrary expectations; second, whether significance of disagreements can be specified; and third, whether negative evaluations of police represent conflicting beliefs about proper…

Three variables in the process of educational change are examined as they relate to media specialists: timeliness, trade-off processes, and the nature of responses to demands for change. New American Association of School Librarians/Association for Educational Communications and Technology guidelines for media specialists, published in "Media…

To counteract society's hostility toward homosexuality, effective social work with lesbian couples and families must include cultural as well as clinical work. This article suggests a multilevel approach, including self-exploration on the part of the worker, acquisition of specific clinical tools, and assumption of an advocacy stance with lesbian…

To investigate the role expectations of the high school learning disability resource teacher, a behavior scale was developed to which 134 incumbents responded as to their actual and desired role performance. (BD)

Ethnographically discovered role conceptions that the deaf have of hearing people can be characterized as three destinctive patterns or types. Until deafness is understood as a social phenomena, distorted communicative situations will occur between the deaf and the hearing. Instances of distorted communication are cited. (SW)

Describes a study to investigate attitudes of male and female politicians in Hawaii regarding womens' issues and the role of women in public office. Concludes that the sex of a politician is not a significant factor in individual attitudes toward public policies that affect women. For journal availability, see SO 506 481. (Author/DB)