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Snyder, Eldon E. – Adolescence, 1972
Students' answers to question What does it take to be a big wheel in this high school." (Author/ML)
Descriptors: Evaluation Criteria, High School Students, Social Attitudes, Socioeconomic Influences
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Petroni, Frank A. – Adolescence, 1972
In a study of high school youth on the question of racial integration, author finds that the imputed difference in youths' attitudes and those they attributed to members of the adult community were often apparent rather than real. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Generation Gap, Parents
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Littrell, Mary Bishop; Eicher, Joanne B. – Adolescence, 1973
Research evaluates the part that clothing plays in the interaction of peer groups. Attention was focused on examining the relationship between opinions about clothing and movement from social isolation to social acceptance. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Clothing, Dress Codes, Interviews
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Kness, Darlene; Densmore, Barbara – Adolescence, 1976
Attempts to discover if there was a significant relationship between the clothing behavior of two different groups of college males (identified as conservative dressers and hippie dressers) and their social-political beliefs. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Clothing, College Students, Correlation, Data Analysis
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Nyberg, Kenneth L.; Alston, Jon P. – Adolescence, 1977
Details the responses of young, urban, college-educated people on their attitudes toward homosexuals, specifically focusing on issues of public identification and negative labeling as it effects homosexual persons and their behaviors. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Homosexuality, Labeling (of Persons), Research Methodology
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Sobel, Harry J. – Adolescence, 1976
Collects comparative and descriptive data on adolescent attitudes on homosexuality and attempts to show that self-concept, and body self-image as one major aspect of self-concept, are significant correlates of an adolescent's attitude toward homosexuality. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Body Image, Data Analysis
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Goodman, Neal R.; Barenblatt, Lloyd – Adolescence, 1983
Examined whether the projected class of destination of adolescents would have greater impact on their political orientations than their class of origin, in a survey of 665 high school seniors. Concluded that the projected class of destination of adolescents has a greater impact for both males and females. (JAC)
Descriptors: Aspiration, High School Seniors, High Schools, Political Attitudes
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Chunhou, Zhang; Vaughan, C. Edwin – Adolescence, 1996
Describes research suggesting diverse trends in the behavior and attitudes of Chinese students, which often conflict with Chinese tradition and customs, and official Chinese government ideology. Addresses the decline of personal sacrifice for the social cause, and changes in courtship and sexual attitudes. Relates most of these changes to China's…
Descriptors: Action Research, Chinese Culture, Citizen Participation, Dating (Social)