Family is the most influential agent among the different social factors that significantly influences the growth and development of any child. The family environment, economic status, socio-educational status of parents influences the different milestones of child development. Education is an important dimension of child’s development and it’s an important driving force in the process of social...

Research in the field of minority languagemaintenance and loss regards the family as the central driving force in children’s language socialization within the context of both minority and majority languages. The present review of current literature focuses on the emerging field of family language policy and addresses the following three components: ideology, management and practice. The integra...

In a recent technological education teacher development study, two elements of teacher socialization–the process of formally preparing to become a teacher (Ginsburg, 1988, p.1)–were singled out for review. First, the study set out to examine the influences on teacher socialization prior to formal teacher education. Second, the impact of pre-service teacher education itself, was explored. The so...

In this chapter, universal and culture-specific aspects of socialization of emotion regulation are dis­ cussed. Emotions and emotion regulation are socialized and develop in cultural contexts. Cultural views on self·other relations are the basis for the child's agentic self and emotion regulation affecting the socio-emotional adjustm�nt in the respective culture. Cultural models of self-other r...

This paper argues that existing models of urban concentrations are incomplete unless grounded in the most fundamental aspect of proximity; face-to-face contact. Face-to-face contact has four main features; it is an efficient communication technology; it can help solve incentive problems; it can facilitate socialization and learning; and it provides psychological motivation. We discuss each of t...

Article history: Received 4 August 2006 Received in revised form 6 February 2008 Accepted 12 February 2008 Available online 8 April 2008 This study examines the relationships among entrepreneurial orientation, knowledge creation process, and firm performance using survey data from 165 entrepreneurs. We use LISREL analysis to test the direct and indirect effects of the entrepreneurial orientatio...

In this short response, we selectively address some of the key issues and criticisms raised by our esteemed commenters. First, we clarify our standpoint vis à vis “biological” arguments, underscoring that our article is not to be read as hostile to all forms of explanations that incorporate biology into the explanation of religious behavior and belief, but only against those explanations that a...