Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another study was made by Richard E. Thompson '52, which he submitted as his Senior Honors thesis in the Department of Social Relations. Thompson established the SPT as a valid instrument for distinguishing among children already showing behavioral difficulties, those who are true delinquents from those whose maladapted behavior is temporary. The SPT showed that among a representative group of 100 boys, included originally in a research project called the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, it would again have been possible to identify accurately 91 per cent of all the boys as either potential delinquents or as non-delinquents...
Another test of the SPT's validity was made in 1954, when the Douglas A. Thom Clinic for Children in Boston, applied it to 57 boys ranging in age from 6 to 12 years, who had been treated for aggressive, destructive, anti-social behavior. The scorings made by the clinic psychologist indicated that 823 per cent of these boys, at the age of six, would have been clearly identified by the test as potential offenders...
...result of the application by Thompson to girl delinquents is unusual since all of the 50 girls would have been identified as potential offenders. Mrs. Glueck offers the explanation that the social pathology in the background of delinquent girls is far worse than in the background of boys. "Girl offenders are not brought to court unless they are really, seriously delinquent," she said...
This was clearly reflected in the categorization of this group of girl offenders on the five social factors that comprise the prediction table. Laxity of discipline by father, for example, was found in 75.6 per cent of the girls as contrasted with only 26.6 per cent of all the boys in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. The fathers of the girls were indifferent or hostile to them in 87.5 per cent of the cases, as compared with only 59.8 per cent of the boys...
...three problems of medical care, rights and obligations of organized labor, and school desegregation have been selected for the social studies curriculum at the Concord Junior High School. These studies form the subjects for a "case method" technique of instruction, which, it is hoped, will substantially change a junior high school student's approach to contemporary national issues from simple information-giving recitation to "complex patterns of critical evaluation." The SUPRAD investigators hope to accomplish this by the use of special materials and by "probing-questioning Socratic discussion...