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Representative data gathered from 674 ;' 's on reference scales & goals in variois soc dimensions for teen-age HSch students living in diff'iated Ur settings in San Antonio & Oklahoma City are presented. The'DG's were 'presented as an `opinion survey' of teen agers, a designation which had considerable appeal to them. They were adrnin'ed to required classes or study halls.' The Ur areas in the 2 cities were ranked 'high,' 'middle,' & 'low,' as to composite 'soc rank.' Figures present for the 3 groups: (I) Desired Neighborhood of Residence; (II) Proportions Judging Coll Degree of Higher Educ as Minimum Wanted, Necessary, & Defining 'Educated'; (III) The Occup'al Ladder in Diff'iated Areas; & (IV) Reference Scales for Evaluating Poverty & Comfort. M. Duke.

chapter Introduction: Problems of Youth in Transition -- part Part I: TH E INDIVIDUA L ADOLESCENT, YOUTH SUBCULTURES AND FAMILY -- chapter 1 Adolescent Attitudes and Goals -- chapter 2 Youth Subculture: Variations on a General Theme -- chapter 3 Family Structure and Youth Attitudes -- part Part II: ADOLESCENCE I N DIFFERENT SOCIAL SETTINGS -- chapter 4 The New World View of Negr oYouth -- chapter 5 Youth in Lower Class Settings -- chapter 6 Psychological Acculturation in Modern Maori Youth -- chapter 7 Sociocultural and Psychodynamic Processes in Adolescent Transition and Mental Health -- part Part III: YOUTH IN TROUBLE -- chapter 8 Social Structure and Grou pProcesses in Explanations of Gang Delinquency -- chapter 9 The Structure and Functions of Adult-Youth Systems -- chapter 10 Group Organization Theory and the Adolescent Inpatient Unit -- part Part IV: AGE-MATE REFERENCE SETS WITHIN DIFFERENTIATED NEIGHBORHOODS -- chapter 11 Urban Neighborhoods and Individual Behavior Wendell Bell -- chapter 12 The Adolescent in Hi sGroup in Its Setting -- chapter 13 The Adolescent in His Group in Its Setting.

'One of the most neglected aspects in the social-psychological treatment of opinion and behavior until recent years has been power relations.' Two empirical types of power relations may be observed: (1) direct and imperative; and (2) indirect-although the two types overlap to a large extent, especially in a democratic society. Power relations are involved wherever group structure and status relations are studied. Conformity to norms may not require continual coercion or use of brute force by leaders. The major norms of the group are internalized and are key factors determining behavior. In the socialization process these norms are incorporated into the ego system. 'It is through involvement of the ego, as it is formed at the time, that power can be exerted without being recognized as such, and conformity in experience and action achieved without direct imperatives from external sources.' This principle may be utilized in the study of the influences of the mass media. The authors also discuss interrelationships among power structures. Behavior can be explained adequately through intergroup as well as intragroup relations. The state of intergroup relations affects the opinions and behavior of members of an in-group toward other groups and also affects the status structure of the in-group and its norms. American minority groups, for example, are oriented to the norms of the dominant group. Only limited understanding of behavior can be achieved if participation in group interaction is studied as though the in-group setting was complete in itself and unexposed to power relations other than those developing between the leader and other group members. E. Scott.

Hyp's about judgment of truth by active participants in a soc controversy were based on the theory of attitude in soc judgment. Results support the following conclusions: (1) The degree of truth assessed in statements varies with their similarity to the stand taken by the person's group. (2) Highly involved participants assess a larger proportion of statements on the issue as false than as true, exhibiting caution in accepting even statements emanating from their own side. (3) Correct attribution of source to unidentified statements does not vary according to the person's stand, but to the degree of public consensus within each side on its position. (4) Incorrect attribution of source varies such that truth is assimilated to one's own side & denied the opponent. Judgments by participants on both sides follow common psychol'al principles, proceeding from opposed premises which are rooted in commitments to historically divergent instit's & groups. AA.