TY - JOUR AU - Rich, Wilbur C. AB - BOOK REVIEWS of freedom of worship. Youths in this respect are only too discomfortingly simĀ­ ilar to the American adult. In reading the author's concise summary of the "old works "one is aware of how time-bound they seem even today. Less than ten years old, many of the findings already are obsolete, especial ly as they relate to political cynicism, trus in t officials etc , .What seemed timeles verities s even five years ago may well have been the artifact of s the prosperous pre-Watergate Unite d States. Weissberg correctl concludes y that we still have no soli devidence about the absolute or even the relat ive strengths of the various socialization agents He . is particula convincing rly when he document how s these agents exclude from conĀ­ siderati on alternate policy choices, thus creating an artificial consensus. It is too bad that he fails to trace how this influences curriculum building in the schools for , exampl e. School curricul and a teaching methods may als o be the reason student s have so much trouble in understanding democracy and applying democratic principles to concret sit e uations We . simply do not train our student TI - Psychological Needs and Political Behavior, by Stanley Allen Renshon JF - Political Science Quarterly DO - 10.2307/2148267 DA - 1975-06-15 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/psychological-needs-and-political-behavior-by-stanley-allen-renshon-DC4wOa5nUQ SP - 367 EP - 369 VL - 90 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -