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Coyle, Karin; Basen-Engquist, Karen; Kirby, Douglas; Parcel, Guy; Banspach, Stephen; Harrist, Ronald; Baumler, Elizabeth; Weil, Marsha – Journal of School Health, 1999
Evaluated the effectiveness of the first year of "Safer Choices," a two-year, multicomponent HIV, STD, and pregnancy-prevention program for high school students based on social theory. Student self-report surveys indicated that "Safer Choices" succeeded in reducing selected risk behaviors and in enhancing selected protective…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Behavior Change
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Chalmers, F. Graeme – Canadian Review of Art Education: Research and Issues, 1994
Investigates the connection between racism in the public school art curriculum and the ethnocentric ideas of George Zerffi. Zerffi lectured widely and taught art history to future art teachers in England, between 1868 and 1892. Although occasionally brilliant, his views reflected the ethnocentric ideology of Victorian England. (MJP)
Descriptors: Aesthetic Values, Art Appreciation, Art Criticism, Art Education
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White, Judith; Taft, Susan – Journal of Management Education, 2004
In this article, we provide a summary of several major traditional and contemporary philosophical and psychological perspectives on ethical conduct for businesses, along with five different sets of internationally accepted ethical guidelines for corporations operating anywhere in the world. We include examples of corporate codes of conduct from…
Descriptors: Corporations, Ethics, Ethical Instruction, Values Education
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Lipman, Pauline – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2003
The author examines the relationship between accountability and militarization of urban US schools and social and economic processes in cities. The focus is the role of education policies in the production of inequality and racial oppression in the context of a new geography of centrality and marginality in world cities. This analysis is developed…
Descriptors: School Policy, Social Bias, Discipline, Accountability
Johnson, Bob L., Jr. – 1995
Resource-dependence theory is a theory of organization(s) that seeks to explain organizational and interorganizational behavior in terms of those critical resources that an organization must have in order to survive and function. The theory focuses on the following: resources; the flow or exchange of resources between organizations; those…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Organizational Development, Organizational Theories, Organizations (Groups)
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Shirk, John C. – 1996
Theories of social interaction and lifelong learning have been advanced by K. Lewin, J. Moreno, T. Sarbin, J. W. Thibaut and H. H. Kelley, R. S. Perinbanayagam, and B. Dervin. From this research lifelong learning can be seen as an affective and cognitive activity that occurs in the life-space of the actor in response to positive or negative field…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Adults, Andragogy, Experiential Learning
Myers, Scott A. – 1990
One way to implement theory into existing public relations classes is to utilize the Process of Public Relations model developed by L. W. Long and V. Hazleton. The use of the model in the classroom is important because the model stresses the interdependence between the public relations practitioner and the organization. The model begins by…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Models, Organizational Communication, Public Relations
Osmond, Marie W.; Martin, Patricia Y. – 1976
"Reciprocity," a social simulation game based on exchange theory, was developed by the author to study the dynamics of power relationships in the context of marriage and the family. The simulation can be manipulated to test specific aspects of three major exchange formulations: Blau's social exchange formulation; Emerson's…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Family Relationship, Games, Marriage
Matross, Ronald P.; Moynihan, F. James – 1976
This paper describes a therapy analogue experiment in which an interviewer's interpretation of a client's presenting problem was systematically varied along dimensions suggested by causal attribution theory. Subjects were 64 undergraduate students with the same presenting problem of unassertiveness. They were given two different interpretations of…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Interpretive Skills
Pannen, Donald E. – 1981
The evaluation of rewards and costs incurred in the context of interaction is central to equity and exchange theories of interpersonal behavior; however, the question of how this assessment is affected by the anticipation of future interaction has not been directly investigated. If the maintenance of equity in relationships is important, then the…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Expectation, Human Relations, Interaction
Berg, John H.; Archer, Richard L. – 1980
Several theoretical approaches have been offered to explain the phenomenon of reciprocity: trust-liking, social exchange, and modeling. The emphasis of previous research on self-disclosure reciprocity (descriptive reciprocation), the intimacy of the facts an individual reveals about him- or herself, stems largely from the fact that these…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Students
Turner, Jim L.; Foa, Uriel G. – 1971
The notion of particularism is used in this study to relate the choice of reciprocal action to the previous exchange situation. Initial encounters were manipulated by exposing 80 female subjects to affective and monetary outcomes provided by 2 male peers. Treatment conditions varyed in feedback level (high vs. low) and mode of interaction…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Theories, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Baird, Leonard L. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1978
There is a need for theories of how college environments operate. Criteria for theories are proposed, with emphasis on the production of testable theoretical predictions. Three approaches appear unusually promising: role theory, organizational psychology, and social ecological analysis. The advantages of using such theoretical approaches are…
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Organizational Theories, Role Theory
Bagarozzi, Dennis A.; Wodarski, John S. – Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling, 1977
In this article the authors attempt to demonstrate how the principles of social exchange, reciprocity and distributive justice can be used to explain the development and continuation of marital dissatisfaction and conflict. (Author)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Divorce, Family Life, Interpersonal Competence
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Larsen, Gary Y.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1977
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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