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Rury, John L. – Phylon, 1985
Examines the attempts of the New York Manumission Society, a white anti-slavery group, to monitor and influence the behavior of free blacks in the decades following the Revolution. Identifies chief characteristics of the Society's relationship to New York's black community. Argues that the Society's wealthy white leadership probably imposed its…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Black Community, Black History, Blacks
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Zavella, Patricia; Takash, Paule Cruz – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1993
Introduces selected papers delivered at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Papers explore gender as experienced by Latinas and Latinos, examine gendered relationships between Latino men and women, and discern how Latino gender norms in Latin America are perpetrated and negotiated by Latinos within the U.S.…
Descriptors: Activism, Battered Women, Behavior Standards, Cultural Influences
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Walker, Lynn S.; And Others – Counseling Psychologist, 1987
Predominant social values--independence of families, minimal government intervention, separation of home and workplace, and the sex-typed division of labor--lead to policies that create dilemmas for dual-career families. Presents a counseling process that traces such dilemmas to discrepancies between family and social policy values. Suggests…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Standards, Counseling Techniques, Dual Career Family
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Brown, Laura S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1989
Explores the possibility that the lesbian or gay experience in contemporary American society might furnish a standpoint for generating new knowledge in psychology. Considers the following elements that define lesbians' or gay men's ways of knowing and experiencing the world: (1) biculturalism; (2) marginality; and (3) normative creativity. (JS)
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Bias, Biculturalism, Cognitive Processes
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Morgan, Elyse; Farber, Barry A. – Adolescence, 1982
Evaluates the effects of expanding sex-role alternatives on the passage of American middle-class women through the Eriksonian model of identity achievement. Contrasts contemporary norms regarding appropriate feminine roles with the more constricted social expectations of Erikson's time. Discusses validity of Erikson's original model of female…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Behavior Standards, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
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McDonald, Gerald W. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1981
Explores a structural exchange theory of marital interaction. Discusses importance of considering structural and temporal dimensions involved in marital exchange. Suggests examining the influence of the social structure on the cognitive orientations of marital partners and the subsequent exchange relationship. Examines how trust and commitment…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Cognitive Style, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship