In recent decades, socialization research appears to have suffered the loss of its former capacity to explain the processes of becoming a socialized subject in a social environment. In this article, I review socialization theories taking into account assumptions regarding human subjects and their social environments. I confront them with the idea of rethinking dualisms, ontologies, and agencies...

A theoretical model was tested in which general parenting and parental smoking predicted anti-smoking socialization, which in turn predicted adolescent smoking onset. Participants were 4351 Dutch adolescents between 13 and 15 years of age. In the model, strictness and psychological autonomy granting were related to lower likelihood of smoking onset, and parental smoking was positively related t...

This article follows a previous research, published in Revue de Gestion des Ressources Humaines, n° 72 (2009), examining the relationships between organizational socialization tactics and perceived fit. Using the same database, we made specific hypotheses regarding new and different outcome variables (learning and role innovation), in order to investigate a new research question. The authors wo...

An important episode in workplace learning is the socialization of newly hired people into the organization quickly and effectively. Typically, the organization sciences literature conceptualizes the socialization of new employees as a learning process whereby the newcomer is responsible for learning to fit into the organization. Not only must newcomers learn the tasks of their jobs, they must ...

PURPOSE Our previous study found it feasible for a preschooler with cerebral palsy (CP) to use a power mobility device in his classroom but noted a lack of typical socialization. The purpose of this follow-up study was to determine the feasibility of providing mobility and socialization training for this child. METHODS Will, a 3-year-old with CP, 1 comparison peer, 2 preschool teachers, and 2...

using social interpretivism approach, this research studies the process of political socialization of female students and its main agents. the process of political socialization is important because all political thoughts and attitudes of people are shaped through this process. grounded theory is applied and data have been collected by in-depth interviews. based on purposive sampling and also t...

Relations between parental socialization and infants' prosocial behavior were investigated in sixty three 18- and 30-month old children. Parents' socialization techniques (e.g., directives, negotiation, reasoning) differed for the two age groups, as did relations between socialization and different forms of emerging prosocial behavior (helping; sharing).

Cultural socialization attitudes, beliefs, and parenting behaviors were examined in families with internationally adopted children. The authors hypothesized that parents with lower color-blind racial attitudes would be more likely to engage in enculturation and racialization parenting behaviors because they hold stronger beliefs in the value and importance of cultural socialization. Using data ...