an agency formally charged by society with the task of socializing the young in particular skills and values. We usually think of the school as being mainly concerned with teaching skills and knowledge.... But the schools in every society also engage in outright indoctrination in values. We may find this fact more readily apparent in societies other than our own ... the school socializes ... th...

Children's relationships with their peers become more intimate as they grow older, with girls tending to experience intimacy in their friendships at an earlier age than their male counterparts. The size, friendship composition, and activity of elementary school children's play groups were recorded in an attempt to identify probable environmental causes of gender differences in the development o...

Many who smoke in college do so infrequently and smoking conditions are not well understood. We examined smoking patterns among college fraternity and sorority members (N = 207) from a Midwestern university in three successive fall semesters in 2006-2008. Participants completed calendar-assisted retrospective assessments of 30-day smoking at up to five assessment points over 96 days. Overall sm...

As more and more K—12 students gain access to the Internet at home and at school, the potential exists for students, families, and schools to use this resource in new ways. However, we know little about Internet use and perceptions by students and families from outside the middle class, mainstream U.S. culture. This study presents cases of four Latino middle school students frvm three families ...

Package size, plate shape, lighting, socializing, and variety are only a few of the environmental factors that can influence the consumption volume of food far more than most people realize. Although such environmental factors appear unrelated, they generally influence consumption volume by inhibiting consumption monitoring and by suggesting alternative consumption norms. For researchers, this ...

Although many have hypothesized that neighborhoods and social context are important influences on the decision to vote, the data to study these phenomenon have often been inadequate. We examine a unique source of data, registered voter lists, from a rich variety of locations that allow us to tap into this social participation dynamic using a multilevel research design. We find that neighborhood...

Television occupies a large portion of American children's time. Starting in preschool, children spend more time watching television than participating in any other activity except sleeping (D. Anderson, Field, P. Collins, Lorch, & Nathan, 1985; Huston, Wright, Rice, Kerkman, & St. Peters, 1987). Children also have extensive experience with television before they are exposed to many socializing...

Purpose This study aims to investigate the impact on organizational members of team marks and peer feedback in a classroom as an setting, where equals were engaged hierarchical form accountability. It uses Roberts’s framework hierarchical, socializing, intelligent forms accountability discusses viability higher education, given structure for academics. Design/methodology/approach Autoethnograph...

There is a deficiency of in-depth investigations young people’s moral decision-making during the coronavirus pandemic. The current article studies such with respect to socializing peers, drawing on 44 interviews Hungarian university students. interviewed students overwhelmingly changed their behavior because pandemic, however concrete actions showed great differences. For some it was enough if ...