CONTENTS: Introduction/Part I: Family Influence Processes/On the Transmission of Values in the Family: A Preliminary formulation/Parental Influence: A Review of the evidence of influence and a theoretical model of the parental-influence process/Toward a Theory of Family Influence in the Socialization of Children/Part II: Schools and Colleges as Sources of Influence/Young Children's Academic Expectations/Family-School-Person Interactions on Student Outcomes/The Processes and Consequences of Role Identification among College Students/Impact of the Fit Between Students and Universities: A Comparison of Three Chicago Area Universities and their student bodies/Part III: Social Structural Antecedents and Consequences/Social Reproduction and the Bowles-Gintis Thesis of a Correspondence Between School and Work Settings/Women in Medicine and Law: A Conceptual viewpoint of competing approaches/Part IV: Personal Change in Later Life/Socialization, Roles and Identity in Later Life/Loss of Work Role and Subjective Health Assessment in Later Life Among Men and Unmarried Women.