Traditional theories of delinquency causation generally fail to consider delinquency in the context of norms and age-role transitions peculiar to adolescence. Hence, in this study, an age-based theory of delinquency causation is developed, which assumes the importance of norms and roles specific to adolescence. This theory draws upon the assumption that socialization is recurrent, in contrast t...

A social psychological theory of personality is presented which examines the crucial relationship between self and other as perceived by the individual and communicated by topological configurations of the self in relation to.significant others. The inadequacies of self and social guidance mechanisms for social adaptation are assumed to he associated with the concept of alienation. The alienati...

Well over a decade ago, on a Sunday morning for entertainment, I was watching the great charismatic preacher Oral Roberts. Just by luck I happened upon his sermon in which proclaimed to have recognized the beast from Revelations. In his lament against the beast and Satan he produced a sign of it proof, conformation that the beast was among us and we were fast approaching the end days and the ba...

The damaging effects of employment have been discussed for many years. Marx identified several possible forms of alienation. Laborers can be alienated from the product of their labor (Marx, 1963 trans.). They can also be alienated from the process of production, making work external from their nature and not improving their abilities. In Marx’s view capitalists abuse the power of ownership to a...

This paper will report on the evaluation experience in two SOCRATES projects focused on change in Higher Education. The projects were international in scope involving 6 countries and 20 institutions within the last four years. The paper reflects on change in institutions specifically, especially those introduced by the use of ICT and it suggests the hypothesis that in such a phase of transition...

Midpoint ratings of elements on personal constructs have been given various interpretations, and the placement of the ideal self at the midpoint of a construct has been viewed as violating Kelly‘s (1955/1991) Dichotomy and Choice Corollaries. This paper reports analyses, using a mixed models approach, of repertory grids completed by 80 clients referred to a clinical psychology service at up to ...

Individuals who choose not to be parents are viewed in terms of negative stereotypes and experience social pressures to alter or justify their status. Data were collected from in-depth interviews with twenty-four voluntarily childless women and men and a focus group that included seven of the interviewed individuals. Inductive analysis discovered the techniques that individuals used, in self-in...

Diversity is widely celebrated and pursued in parts of American society, particularly within academe. Diversity is clearly associated with moral goods, such as justice, and with practical goods, such as the variety and quality of ideas. But from a social psychological point of view, diversity ought to cause a number of problems, such as divisiveness and conflict. A resolution of this paradox is...