Considers the attitudes of adolescents in terms of four subjects: relationships, feelings, growing up and concerns. The four subjects were determined from a detailed analysis of 109 new songs recorded by Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon from 1968 to 1975. (Author/RK)

Understanding the influence of peer culture and developing intervention strategies are essential tasks for student affairs staff concerned with promoting values awareness and development. Recent changes in the norms of collegiate peer culture are described, and strategies for influencing peer culture are delineated. (TE)

A teacher describes his first year teaching science in an urban school and the process of co-teaching with other teachers and student "consultants" that helped him relearn to teach and deal with the subculture he encountered. (SK)

In 2004, a group of high school students at a private American school in Mexico City started the first gay-straight alliance in Mexico. A small group of conservative parents and a Mormon principal organized in opposition. This paper details the students' struggle to keep their club and offers lessons learned about student activism, school change,…

Argues that an empirical test of the Theodore Roszak-Charles Reich theorem indicates that neither conceptual schema is verifiable: WASPs and upper-stratum Jews are not the exclusive carriers of those traits identified with the counter-erculture; socioeconomic status was only applicable to the youngest group sampled. (Author/JM)

Examines the diffusion among mostly Catholic blue-collar youth of certain countercultural values, viz. those pertaining to general orientations to life and work: 117 out of a random sample of 200 students selected from lists of 4000 liberal arts students at Loyola University completed a questionaire. (Author/JM)

Presents data and discussion arguing that the youth revolt is a significant social force that will continue to grow: the process of industrialization should be extending the period of youth as well as creating greater productivity, and productivity seems to be undermining the motivating force of the achievement ideology. (Author/JM)

There are various subcultures within the black student body at every college. The identification and understanding of the importance of these sub-cultures of black students is important in assessing these members' knowledge and use of student services. (Author)

The principal aim of this study was to investigate the impact of type of college, place of residence, and reference group identification on college environmental perception. An attempt was made to measure the variability in terms of college perception that existed among students in the following subgroups: (1) sophomore male students attending 3…

This project examined how values relate to teachers' ratings of their children and teacher reports of critical incidents which happened in the classrooms. The role of race and social class differences in values and classroom problems was also investigated. An examination of children's remarks showed that Good Manners, Kindness, Academic…

Describes parameters of cultural differences among mainstream teachers and students, grounded in attitudes and behavior as well as ethnicity. Determinants of subgroups include social class, age, life experiences, and activity patterns. (SA)

The purpose of this article is to examine the present academic milieu in terms of the relationship between social structure and the composition of student cultures in higher education. (Author)