Social Attitudes and School Curriculum Socialization

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The study examined the proposition that school-curriculum organization has differential socialization influences on children's social attitudes. Data were collected from 430 final-year students from six secondary schools in the south of England. The students, who were classified into the curriculum categories of arts, physical science, or mixed, completed four attitude scales from which 10 social-attitude factors were generated. Only modest support was provided for the proposed association between social attitudes and curriculum organization. Instead, the findings suggested the proposition that for the development of social attitudes, gender-related socialization is more important than those socialization processes associated with membership of school-curricum categories.

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