This study examined the influence of education, agency culture, and demographic attributes on the level of professional socialization of state administrators, using data from a national survey of 5,980 state administrators. It found a positive relationship between the educational attainment of state administrators and their orientations toward service professionalism. Analysis suggested that the level of professionalism was dependent, for the most part, on the political acuity level. The degree of supervisor encouragement for training positively impacted political acuity, but had no discernable impact on professionalism. Younger administrators were found to be less politically acute than older administrators. Professionalism level was found to have a significant impact on public service values such as organizational democracy, pluralistic polity, politicized merit system, and service to clientele. Two appendixes provide copies of the administrator questionnaire and the data code book. (Contains approximately 285 references.) (MDM)