The current and growing shortage of student affairs administrators is a growing concern among colleges and universities within the United States, and raising awareness and recruitment within the profession are recognized national priorities (NASPA, 2012). The growth and sustainability of the student affairs profession is largely dependent on the ability to recruit the next generation of administrators. However, there is not a clear understanding of the experiences that influence student affairs administrators' decision to choose student affairs as a career. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences (personal, professional, social) that influenced African American student affairs administrators at public, four-year, predominantly White institutions decision to pursue student affairs as a career. Further, this study investigates the association between these experiences and anticipatory socialization. The concept of early professional socialization or anticipatory socialization is the first step that takes place in the socialization process and occurs prior to entry into an organization. I argue that African American student affairs administrators are imperative to the student affairs profession because they play an instrumental role in the development of African American college students, as well diversifying the field of student affairs as a whole. This diversity enhances the educational experience for both minority and majority students. Therefore, it is imperative that student affairs administrators continue to encourage and recruit more African Americans to the field, by building a pipeline of future student affairs professionals. This qualitative study examines the previous experiences and backgrounds of African American student affairs administrators. Focusing on professionals working at four-year, predominantly White institutions (PWIs), this study seeks to learn about the personal, professional, and social experiences that led participating staff members to pursue work in the area of student affairs. The central focus of this study is to examine and understand how African American student affairs administrators come to choose their profession, and ways in which current African American student affairs administrators may recruit and encourage students to enter into the student affairs profession. Socialization is the process by which an individual learn the necessary attitudes, skills, and behaviors in order to fulfill professional roles organization (Merton, 1957; Tierney, 1997; Van Maanen & Schein, 1979). Socialization theory frames this study and provides a framework for analyzing my research problem in light of understanding how minority student affairs professionals may apply the socialization process in order to recruit and influence African American students to pursue careers in the student affairs profession. I hope that the significance of my findings will assist current African American student affairs administrators in gaining a better understanding of how these experiences impact the decision of African Americans to pursue careers in student affairs, so that they can better recruit more African American students into the field.

The purpose of this dissertation project was to understand how institutions of higher education, through both punishments and rewards, ensure that dominant cultural codes are "taught" to students of color in ways that normalize whiteness ideologies. I wanted to understand racism in higher education through the lens of socialization to show the ways in which institutional members (un)intentionally conflate dominant cultural codes with the "correct" or "normal" way to think, act, or speak. Furthermore, I was interested in the ways that students of color take up, defer, resist, adapt, mix, subvert, and/or accommodate the institutional practices that (re)produce racial power within contemporary U.S. higher education. To pursue these goals, I focused on topics of racism, socialization through the white habitus, and civility utilizing critical-qualitative methodologies. I interviewed fourteen participants of various racial backgrounds a total of twenty-eight times to understand how they identified and negotiated the institutional norms of higher education. Specially, I utilized in-depth interviewing methods with narrative analysis and counterstory techniques to generate themes and present stories concerning my topics. My analysis of participants' responses generated insights related to my areas of study. First, I showed how racism manifests in a myriad of ways, including stereotypes and stereotype threats, microaggressions of invisibility, and overt forms of physical/mental violence. These themes indicate that racism still presents a significant threat to the health, well-being, and success of students of color within higher education. Second, I utilized Co-Cultural Theory to analyze participants' descriptions of higher education as a space that is dominated by the white habitus. That is, participants described specific communicative codes that constituted the practices of an idealized White identity within higher education and the ways they assimilated, accommodated, and separated from that identity. Third, I drew upon the notion of civility to understand the ways that its practice can function to perpetuate or subvert racism within higher education. Participants described appeals to covering ground and common courtesy as ways that conversations about race and racism are elided by dominant members in higher education thereby perpetuating whiteness. Additionally, I found that participants utilized purposive silence, niceness, and absurdity as ways to subvert the hegemonic dimensions of civility. Overall, my analysis points to the relationships among cultural, institutional, and individual rules and performances of race and racism. I concluded my dissertation by describing the major findings of the project and offering ways to combat racism in higher education. I offered that this dissertation can further whiteness studies by focusing attention on the cultural norms and practices that constitute the socializing mechanisms of higher education (or other institutions). This type of analysis is important because it does not rely upon essentialized racial identities (e.g., linking whiteness to White bodies); instead, it focuses attention on the institutional rules and norms that constitute yet transcend racial categories. I also drew upon Black Feminist Thought and Critical Communication Pedagogy to map out a dialogic ethic that serves as a foundation for communicating through inclusive civility to provide a guide for coalitional politics for social-justice work. I ended with the hope that such an ethic may provide a necessary step in the work to elicit institutional change and cultural renewal.

The purpose of this study was to examine parent (e.g., exposure to diversity) and child factors (e.g., age, anxiety and prosocial behavior) as they relate to the transmission of messages related to race and culture. An exploratory hypothesis was that Black parents would exhibit more cultural socialization, preparation for bias, and promotion of mistrust than White parents. In addition, there were hypotheses that the messages that parents impart to their children about race would be influenced by the age of the child or parents’ experience with diverse groups of people. Online questionnaires were distributed to parents and the final sample consisted of 183 parents of Black children (N = 90) and White children (N = 93), aged four to fourteen years old (M = 8.08). Overall, this study found that Black parents engage in more conversations about race and culture than White parents. However, there were no racial differences between number of messages of equality. The hypothesis that the frequency of preparation for bias messages increases as children get older was supported. The hypothesis that Black children who have higher scores on dimensions of racial socialization would have higher levels of prosocial behavior was supported. The hypothesis that the affective valence of exposure to diverse groups of people would be positively related to egalitarianism was supported. The present study adds to the current literature by highlighting that different messages about race and culture need to be communicated for children in the majority culture versus minority culture.

The purpose of this study was to explore adult African American women’s interpretations of early gender and sex-related socialization messages within the familial environment, with an emphasis on the projection of hypersexuality. The exploration of sexual socialization practices has been a longstanding area of research (e.g., Raffaelli & Ontai, 2001). However, in accordance with a recommendation from the APA Task Force (2007) on the sexualization of girls, more research is needed to examine the specific ways in which girls of color are impacted by sexualization. African American women have a unique history within the United States, as the use of controlling images that depicts their alleged hypersexuality have been used to legitimize their social marginalization. This strategy may also have paved a pathway to the expectation of hypersexuality of young African American girls. This concept was highlighted in a popular twitter hashtag, #FastTailedGirls, which showcased adult African American women’s reflections on the consequences of being mislabeled as hypersexual (Trudy, 2013). Using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (Smith & Osborn, 2008), I conducted eight semi-structured interviews with adult African American women to explore their meaning making of early gender and sex-related socialization messages within the familial environment, with attention to culturally relevant constructs. Seven emergent themes were derived from participants’ stories: (a) Learning expectations, (b) Presumed guilty, (c) Assumptions of hypersexuality, (d) Concern for safety, (e) Coping, (f) Respectability, and (g) Resisting.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / A temática violência e escola como um objeto de estudo já está mais consolidada em alguns países, tais como França, entretanto a definição de violência na escola ainda suscita discussão. No Brasil, ela começou a ser abordada por pesquisadores nas últimas décadas, quando a violência cresceu nas grandes cidades e também quando a rede pública de ensino teve uma grande expansão. Neste contexto, a violência na escola ganha relevância social. Diante de tais fatos, esta pesquisa se propõe a analisar as diversas violências que se entrelaçam às dinâmicas escolares e alteram significativamente a sociabilidade daqueles que pertencem à instituição. Os valores da cultura da violência, como suspensão dos direitos dos outros e imposição através da força ou de sua ameaça, podem conflitar com o papel de socialização da instituição de ensino. Há uma tensão entre dois modelos de orientação na escola que representa um grande desafio para o cumprimento de seu papel social de formação moral e intelectual. Da mesma forma, este trabalho procura analisar se a violência presente na comunidade pode se reproduzir no espaço escolar. Para isso, a entrevista foi realizada com o corpo docente e uma análise de textos escritos pelos discentes de duas instituições diferentes da mesma rede de ensino. / Violence and the school as an object of study is already more established in some countries such as France, however the definition of violence in school still in debate. In Brazil, its begun to be broached a subject by researchers in recent decades, when violence grew up in big cities and also when the public school system had a major expansion. In this context, violence in school gets social relevance. Given these facts, this research is to analyze the various forms of violence that interact with school dynamics and also change significantly the sociability of those in the institution. The values of the violence culture, such as suspension of other rights and imposition by force or its threat, are contrary to the values that should be incorporated in school. The school is the main role in the process of socializing new generations, so it should be a place that values the otherness, dialogue and tolerance among all. There is a tension between two types of orientation in the school that represents a great challenge to fulfill its social role of moral and intellectual formation. Likewise, this paper analyzes the violence in the community can play in the school. To do this, I interviewed the teachers and analyze texts written by student from two different institutions of the same school system.

A alfabetização e o letramento na perspectiva de uma educação crítica deverão conduzir a uma transformação social que garanta o pleno exercício da cidadania do povo brasileiro. Por isso, a presente Pesquisa analisa o desenvolvimento do processo de ensino e aprendizagem da leitura e da escrita na Pastoral da Criança- P.C., identificando as teorias de desenvolvimento da linguagem escrita e da leitura, enquanto propõe formas que favoreçam ao trabalho interativo de lideranças comunitárias. Essas formas têm sua aplicação nos gêneros textuais, seja com os instrumentos de trabalho da Pastoral da Criança ou com outras produções textuais que gravitam nos diversos contextos da sociedade onde estão inseridos os líderes da Pastoral da Criança. A proposta baseia-se na concepção sócio-interacionista de língua e na abordagem de Paulo Freire em que as práticas pedagógicas são vivenciadas a partir da mediação da realidade, dos alunos entre si e com o seu alfabetizador, facilitador do processo com intencionalidade bem definida. Utilizamos, ainda, a sugestão de Moreira (1992) que trabalha os portadores de textos nas suas funções sociais, como forma de detectar o grau de letramento entre os alunos da referida Pastoral. A vontade de transformação nasce da prática social, do trabalho consciente daqueles que desejam atingir um objetivo bem determinado seja na paróquia, na Pastoral da Criança, no mundo do trabalho etc. e, assim, vislumbrar os novos tempos em que todo ser humano viva, com maior dignidade, ao ideal de estar no mundo.

Doctor of Philosophy / Department of Psychological Sciences / Patrick A. Knight / The present study examined onboarding information acquisition and the mediated impact of shared mental model on newcomers' organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and intentions to quit. Onboarding is the initial stage of the socialization process that provides information pertinent to facilitating newcomers' transition into the organization. Previous research stated that a dearth in the socialization literature existed pertaining to intra-individual cognitive mediators. As a result, the present study identified and evaluated the variable, shared mental model, as an underlying mechanism through which information acquisition operated within the onboarding process. The study postulated that newcomers actively evaluated for perceived congruency their own mental models with those espoused by the organization with these perceptions influencing individual organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and intentions to quit. Data were collected via Qualtrics from 305 full-time employees who were experiencing onboarding at the time of study. Participants completed a series of scales relevant to newcomer information seeking behavior, clarity of job role and work processes, and specific organizational outcomes (e.g., organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and intentions to quit) through an online data collection hub. A confirmatory factor analysis supported the factor structures for each of the latent variables (the antecedent, mediator, three socialization outcomes) evaluated in the present study. The proposed mediated socialization process was then examined by way of structural equation modeling. Results showed that shared mental models did mediate the relationships between newcomer employee behaviors and specific socialization outcomes. Furthermore, relationships between the antecedent, newcomer employee behaviors, and two of the socialization consequences, organizational commitment and job satisfaction, appeared to be fully mediated by the presence of shared mental models in the analysis (the intentions to quit relationship was partially mediated). Practical and theoretical implications, in addition to limitations and recommendations of the research are discussed.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:28:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2003-08-11Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:36:26Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 nicolino_as_me_rcla.pdf: 288008 bytes, checksum: a13fcb1bd8fa25f703edd11792d12697 (MD5) / A cultura corporal alternativa, tema deste trabalho, expressa adaptações e criações de fontes diversas, combinando vários saberes e conhecimentos de forma aberta e original. O estudo tem como problema o universo profissional alternativo direcionado para as práticas corporais alternativas, compreendendo essa formação como manifestação de uma socialização secundária, que entende essas articulações como uma crítica aos conhecimentos científicos. Os procedimentos metodológicos se valeram do referencial teórico clássico das Ciências Sociais, da observação sistemática, com a descrição dos espaços visitados, além de questionário e entrevista, direcionados para a história de vida de algumas profissionais selecionadas. Os dados revelaram uma visão mais ampla do ser humano, com formas de pensar, sentir e agir mais livres, assim como fatores que sugerem um possível encaminhamento para um processo profissionalizante no universo alternativo, apontado por uma disputa interna. Além disso, o universo atribui um papel de destaque para a experiência prática e uma linguagem inversa do processo profissional da Educação Física, pois parte de elementos ignorados pela ciência, como o conhecimento prático, para buscar seu reconhecimento. Enfim, o universo alternativo apresenta elementos que atendem as características culturais da pós-modernidade, mostrando-se uma área emergente que se vale de variáveis distantes da modernidade, como carisma, prática e subjetividade, revelando-se inovador e único. / The alternative body culture shows itself, in this study, with creations and adaptations of different sources, combining a lot of knowledge and cultures of open and original forms. Thus, the problem of this research is related to the alternative professional universe directing to alternative body practices comprehending this formation as manifest of secondary socialization, with understand these joints as critics to academic and scientific knowledge. The methodological proceedings are based on theoretical bases of Social Sciences, from systematic observation from alternative work environment, describing the places visited, besides a questionnaire and an interview, directed to the life history of some professionals selected. Data showed a greater vision of Human being, as corporeidade, as way of thinking, feel and act, showing freedom, it also showed factors that direct to a possible professional process, expressed by an internal fight in the alternative universe. The study ends its considerations pointing an important recognition of alternative universe to practical experience, ransoming values ignored by traditional knowledge, as by Physical Education, showing itself as an emergent universe that considers distant variables of modernity, as cherish, pratice and subjectivity. Lastly, the alternative professiona universe shows elements that attend the cultural characteristics of post-modernity, showing itself innovator and unique.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2007-12-17Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:37:56Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 nascimento_man_me_assis.pdf: 1430932 bytes, checksum: d90deaa4b2e4448846cae01e6a163759 (MD5) / Este trabalho problematiza a questão dos modos de subjetivação e as relações hierárquicas e de exercício de poder que gravitam em torno das homossexualidades masculinas, freqüentadores de dispositivos (lugares) de socialização de sexualidades GLBTTT. Descrições históricas indicam que desde a Grécia Antiga, sanções às práticas homoeróticas são recorrentes, porém, é com o surgimento do personagem homossexual no século XIX que as injúrias e perseguições se direcionaram para o sujeito homossexual. Ainda que, ambientes freqüentados para encontros homoeróticos sempre existiram, é apontado pela história que, a partir do século XIV, idéias eugenistas, higienistas e heteronormativas enfocaram na segregação de lugares e programas familiares em contraposição a lugares onde se aglutinavam as escórias da sociedade, os quais deveriam ser tratados com diferenciação e violência. Partindo do exposto, surgem os dispositivos de socialização freqüentados também por homossexuais, os chamados popularmente, por esses freqüentadores, guetos gays. No entanto, é fato que a violência sofrida pelos homossexuais, sugere um novo caráter expressivo e crescente – a relação de poder e hierarquização entre os próprios homossexuais. O objetivo deste trabalho é descrever as relações estabelecidas entre os homossexuais que freqüentam estes dispositivos e o sentido que estes lugares tiveram e vêm adquirindo ao longo de suas existências, partindo dos pressupostos teóricos dos estudos culturais e de gênero de autores pós-estruturalistas. Para tal pesquisa, realizaram-se observações etnográficas nestes locais em um município do interior paranaense, assim como se realizaram entrevistas prolongadas com freqüentadores selecionados e que ocasionaram em análises das narrativas de histórias de vida... / This study problematizes the ways of subjection and hierarchical relations and also the power actions that surround male homosexulaties, attenders of GLBTTT sexualities socialization spots (places). Historical descriptions show that since Ancient Greece, punishments for homoerotic practices were carried out, nevertheless, it was with the appearance of the homosexual character from the XIX century that those injuries and persecutions headed towards the homosexual character. Even though spots attended by homoerotic meetings have always existed, it is shown through history that, since the XIV century, eugenistic, hygienistic and heteronormative ideas focused on the segregation of places and family programs and also in opposition to places where the society mob gathered, which should be tread with differentiation and violence. Due to the aforementioned, socialization spots also attended by homosexuals are creaated, the popularly so-called, by these attenders, gay ghettos. However, it is a fact that the violence faced by these homosexuals suggests a new expressive and growing character – a power and hierarchy relation among the homosexuals themselves. The objective of this study is to describe the relations established among homosexuals who attend these spots and the meaning that these environments have had and are acquiring through their existence, based on cultural and gender studies from post-structuralist authors. In order to perform such research, ethnographic observations were carried out in those places in an inland town from Parana State, as well as long interviews with selected attenders what resulted in analyses of these characters-participants´ lifetime narratives. The analyses of the ...(Complete abstract, click electronic access below)

Orientador: José Milton de Lima / Banca: Mauro Betti / Banca: Maria Suzana de Stefano Menin / Resumo: A presente pesquisa partiu do pressuposto de que se faz necessário, ao educador contemporâneo, buscar recursos e meios que o capacitem a desenvolver um trabalho escolar de maior qualidade, ou seja, planejar, sistematizar e desenvolver atividades com a finalidade de promover a socialização das crianças, nas séries iniciais do Ensino Fundamental. Estabeleceu como objetivo investigar o jogo como precursor de valores, delimitando como objeto de análise a incorporação, pelas crianças, dos valores: cooperação, solidariedade, respeito mútuo e perseverança. A metodologia, de predominância qualitativa, caracterizou-se como de intervenção, com medidas qualitativas e quantitativas, nas seguintes etapas: etapa de intervenção 1: sondagem inicial; etapa de intervenção 2: sondagem parcial; e, etapa de intervenção 3: sondagem final. Nesse processo, o conhecimento produzido foi tratado como um fenômeno descritivo. A formalização dos diagnósticos, nas três etapas, se deu por meio de observações participante, registros escritos e intervenções do pesquisador em relação às crianças através do jogo... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The present study is based on the idea that the contemporaneous teacher has to find resources and ways to develop a higher quality job, that means planning, making an outline and developing activities in order to promote children’s socialization, in Primary School. The objective of this research is to investigate the game as a forerunner of values, and having as the analysis object the children’s incorporation of values like: cooperation, solidarity, mutual respect and persistence. The methodology study, most of it qualitative, was characterized as an intervention, with qualitative and quantitative instruments, which follows the steps: first intervention step: initial exploration; second intervention step: partial exploration; and third intervention: final exploration. During the study, the knowledge produced was considered and treated as a descriptive phenomenon. The diagnostic was made during participant observation, written registers and the researcher’s intervention with the children through games. / Mestre