An evaluative survey of the influences shaping student beliefs to the left, particularly during the years of student activism. (JB)

Defining adaptive capacity as the ability of an organism or a social system to cope with a wide range of environmental conditions, physical or social, the auth rs examine the relationship between education and each of the components of individual adaptive capacity. (JB)

Policy makers are especially concerned about persistently high dropout rates among U.S. Latinos, the largest minority population in the United States. This study used a national longitudinal database to show that the behavioral and social aspects of schooling are dynamically linked in the process of school completion and dropout among Mexican…

The study reveals that counselors have more educational contacts with students less disposed toward higher education; student's educational goals and intelligence exert a direct effect on the educational advice received; and the counselor has an incremental effect on the student's educational expectations independent of the influences of the…

This paper offers a framework for the sociological study of formal education, with particular reference to the social history of the United States

Describes a program which helps minority graduate students obtain doctoral degrees in sociology at universities of their choice. Fellowships were distributed equally among the sexes when effects of each of the indicators of academic credentials were controlled. Similar conclusions were drawn regarding age, marital status, and geographic region.…

Although the educational community has learned much about better educational practices, less is known about processes for implementing new practices. The standard model of diffusion suggests that people change perceptions about the value of an innovation through communication, and these perceptions then drive implementation. But implementation can…

This paper presents and compares the two main theoretical models on stratification research: the Blau-Duncan, which focuses on the structure of status transmission, and the Wisconsin model, focusing on social psychological dynamics mediating interpersonal influences on individual attainment. (Author/JB)

Examines factors affecting career continuity of college-educated women who are pursuing sex-atypical careers. A longitudinal study of 1685 female college graduates from 1961 indicated that significant determinants of sex-atypical career involvements are: (1) quality and type of schooling and (2) previous involvement with sex-atypical career…

Examines and extends a model to study interconnections among social background, ability, quality and quantity of schooling, and distribution of personal earnings. A sample of male Wisconsin high school graduates was studied through the 14th year following graduation in terms of the economic benefits of return to postsecondary schooling. (Author/AV)

A survey of 1,600 adult Negroes in northern metropolitan areas finds those who attended integrated rather than segregated schools are more likely to have had longer school attendance and score higher on a verbal test. Several reasons are offered as accounting for this effect of integration. (Author/DB)

Investigates whether students' engagement with or alienation from instruction determines (1) the extent to which students take advantage of classroom opportunities to learn and (2) their learning outcomes. Demonstrates that the gaps between opportunities to learn and students' appropriation of those opportunities are instructionally produced and…

Describes a study which investigated whether relationships in schools reproduce the consciousness of workers by dividing students into groups which reward different types of capabilities, attitudes, and behaviors. Discriminant analyses of variables measuring classroom relationships and student attitudes in 139 secondary classrooms at different…

Examines whether U.S. Catholic schooling was a part of mass schooling as opposed to being labeled as private-elite. Explores how urbanization and industrialization increased mass schooling, public and Catholic combined, after the Civil War to the 1930s. Discusses the findings in detail. (Contains 80 references.) (CMK)