Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: One of the great challenges of research in professional socialization has been to move the field away from analyses that focus narrowly on identity change in neophytes.While this is an exciting and worthwhile project, it is easy to inadvertently conduct the same analysis over and over again, applying different theoretical lenses to investigate different aspects of the process.Another downside is that this research tradition has never allowed for strong warrants for doing work on professional socialization because the processes are generally not linked to broader changes in professional culture, policy, or broader national culture.The development of inhabited institutions as a symbolic interactionist approach to understanding the interplay of institutions, organizations, and microsocial action is an enormous boon to the sociology of
Source: Symbolic Interaction
DOI: 10.1002/symb.456
Author: Alexandra H. Vinson
Institution: University of Michigan
Language: English
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2979570073