Nurses must incorporate a political component into their professional role identity to meet the future challenges of the health care system. Political socialization theory can assist faculty in adding a political thread to the curriculum. (SK)

Vann reviews research on how adults learn self-direction and delineates a cognitive-behaviorist learning model. Percival critiques the article and presents an alternate view to which Vann provides a rejoinder. (SK)

Investigates whether personality tests could differentiate between alcohol and drug users among juvenile offenders. Subjects were 108 juvenile offenders given conditional discharge. Results indicate that frequent drug and/or alcohol abusers scored lower on the Gough Socialization Scale and higher on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire lie scale.…

Social learning theory stresses the importance of observation and modeling. Processes that determine outcomes of observed behavior include attention, retention, motor reproduction, and motivation. For nursing education, the theory appropriately focuses on the social environment for learning. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

Case studies and questionnaire responses from 59 recent registered nurse (RN) graduates identified differences in six role socialization processes (individual-collective, formal-informal, sequential-random, fixed-variable, serial-disjunctive, investiture-divestiture) in three types of programs: generic, RN-track, and second-step. In second-step…

Conducted a content analysis of 10 years of feminine hygiene advertisements in "Seventeen" and "Teen" magazines. Finds that advertising copy in these magazines works to dispel myths about menstruation but that few black models are shown. Discusses advertising as an element of socialization for adolescent girls. (SLD)

While using refutational text helps students meet traditional learning goals, it is less useful in environments where students must understand that meaning is constructed, knowledge is dynamic rather than static, and knowledge is constituted in power relations. The paper examines the role of persuasion and competing goals (knowledge,…

Found, through survey data analysis, that students whose personality type was incongruent with the environment of their major gained about equally in abilities and interests pertinent to that environment as students with congruent personalities. Interpreted results in terms of a socialization dynamic being more prevalent than a personality…

This article is an attempt to sketch a realist framework for the sociology of education. The central questions may be stated succinctly. What are the properties of social entities and how can they be demonstrated? What properties of people are acquired as a result of socialisation and how do they influence their actions? What are the properties of…

We propose that institutions can serve as a resource to promote civic identity in youth from low-wealth and other settings. We show how recent studies support this proposition and can constructively reorient developmental research and theory.

We ask three questions: What are the components of young children?s conscience? How are they organized? How does early conscience develop? We discuss the changing perspectives on each of those questions. We describe the shift from a focus on a single component of conscience (moral emotions, conduct, cognition) to a growing emphasis on their…

This article briefly presents a historical overview of e-therapy and the current state of the art as it relates to social work. The article evaluates the research available on the subject and considers several practical issues and ethical concerns based on the ethical standards of NASW, APA, and ACA. The article considers the potential benefits…

Framed by organizational socialization, this qualitative study examines the use of a formal arrangement of mentoring to socialize prospective school administrators. Participants were eight interns paired with eight principals from three school districts. Our ethnographic approach solicited an insider's view of mentoring based upon participants'…

In this article, the authors propose to examine the question of the French early childhood schooling in terms of the socialization processes. The authors start by presenting briefly the main characteristics of the French nursery school. They then discuss socialization processes through sociological perspectives on historical and anthropological…

This paper draws upon 10 interviews conducted with staff at two science centres as part of a research project on science centres and social and cultural inclusion. The authors argue that these science centres have developed a highly differentiated configuration of science that stands at some removes from the standard conception of science as a…