This study explicitly links processes of anticipatory socialization to social mobility and reproduction. An examination of the socializing messages exchanged between blue-collar parents (n = 41) and their children (n = 25) demonstrate that family-based messages about work and career seldom occur in straightforward, unambiguous ways. Instead, messages take several paths (direct, indirect, ambien...

This is the first of a series of papers in which we describe social relationships among mentally disabled adults who worked in four sheltered workshops. In this paper, procedures for observing and interviewing clients and for interviewing staff members were described, and data on reliability and general levels of social behavior were reported. Reliability of social behavior was significant acro...

This article examines the implications that adult socialization theory can have on occupational therapy education. Sociological literature about professional socialization is reviewed and related to the preparation of occupational therapists. The discussion includes a description of the goals, processes, and participants in professional socialization. Consistency of socializing influences is pr...

In this paper we focus on virtual campuses, i.e. virtual worlds representing real educational institutions that are based on the metaphor of a university and provide users with different learning tools. More specifically, we focus on the idea of integrating a virtual campus into the context of a virtual city where the students live and work to extend its possibilities for supporting learning an...

Differing characteristics of local environments, both infrastructural and socio-economic, have created a significant level of variation in the acceptance and growth of e-commerce in different regions of the world. Our findings show that, in development and diffusion of ecommerce in China, cultural issues such as “socializing effect of commerce”, “transactional and institutional trust”, and “att...

Email is one of the most used tools in enterprises for various purposes. However, the enterprise transformation programs are focusing today on social media tools rather than email. This paper discusses the properties of email in enterprises and whether further research is yet necessary on this tool. We provide a set of capabilities to compare between social media tools and email. As email is st...

The article aims to make understandable a significant change that has taken place in the adolescent drinking habits: throughout world, teens are much less than previous generations. Previous research approached this phenomenon through survey methodology, trying identify variables correlate with individuals’ alcohol consumption level, thereby explaining phenomenon. impact of social media use on ...

This study used 2009–2015 time-diary data to examine gender differences in daily activities among children and adolescents aged 10–17 Finland, Spain the UK ( N = 3517). In all three countries, boys were significantly more involved screen-based exercising girls domestic work, non-screen educational personal care. Gender socializing time only significant UK, with than boys. gaps within countries ...