Don Merten

Biographic Data

ID114101
NAMEDon Merten
GIVEN NAMESDon
FAMILY NAMEMerten
SIGNATUREMERTEN D
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS41
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
H-INDEX3

  • Teaching Styles and Performance Values in Junior High School

    Gary Schwartz, Gary T Schwartz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Education1987Cited by: 3

    This paper examines three contrasting teaching styles in a middle-class junior high school. Previous conceptions of teaching styles have tended to focus on the ways in which the teacher organizes the specifically academic tasks and goals of the classroom. The school culture defines the transition from elementary to junior high school in terms of those capacities that enable individuals to reach high levels of performance. Thus, teachers think of …

  • Appropriate Age-Related Behavior for Male and Female Adolescents

    Open AccessRobert J Bursik, Don Merten et al.ARTICLEYouth & Society1985References: 8

    Yes

  • Love and Commitment

    Morris F Friedell, Morris Friedell et al.REVIEWSocial Forces1982

  • Metaphor and Self

    Open AccessDon Merten, Don E Merten et al.ARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1982Cited by: 9References: 14

    This study describes the symbolic process by which individuals attempted to realize, in organizational form, their variant interpretations of an extended metaphor-community mental health. Their metaphoric construals were embedded in everyday discourse and were initially unrecognized by participants at a community mental health center. The metaphoric process, that is, the movement involving the emergence, interpretation, and realization of these m…

  • Love and Commitment

    Charles T Hill, Gary Schwartz et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1981

  • Participant Observation and the Discovery of Meaning1

    Open AccessGary Schwartz, Gary T Schwartz et al.ARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences1971Cited by: 3References: 8

  • The Language of Adolescence

    Gary Schwartz, Gary T Schwartz et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Sociology1967Cited by: 26

    This paper examines the youth culture as a cultural system. It proposes that the model of the youth culture as a contraculture does not point to many of the most distinctive properties of the adolescent subculture. In order to appreciate the differences between adult and adolescent orientations to social reality, we mustlook at the meanings that peer-group norms have for adolescents. From this perspective, the youth culture is a genuinely indepen…