Thesis--University of Wisconsin--Madison. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 163-172).

Thesis (M.S.)--Wisconsin. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-80).

Denna studie syftar till att vinna kunskap om hur organisationskonsulter i ett företag upplevde sin organisatoriska socialisation då de var nyanställda. Forskning kring organisatorisk socialisation har gjorts sedan 70-talet men då har främst kvantitativa forskningsmetoder använts. Som ett ytterligare bidrag till forskningen på området har därför denna studie en kvalitativ metod i form av intervjuer. Då det inte finns en enhetlig teori för organisatorisk socialisation så presenteras ett teoretiskt ramverk och perspektiv på området som belyser olika typer av organisationsinitierade aktiviteter för nyanställda. Exempel på detta är olika typer av socialisationstaktiker, betydelsen av sociala agenter samt hur individen själv som nyanställd är informationssökande i syfte att minska sin egen osäkerhet. Det insamlade empiriska materialet ifrån intervjuerna analyserades sedan med ett deduktivt angreppssätt utifrån tidigare forskning samt det teoretiska ramverket och perspektivet. Resultaten visade att medarbetarna upplevde de olika organisationsinitierade aktiviteterna som lärorika på så sätt att de som nyanställda lättare kunde komma in i sina roller och lära sig sina arbetsuppgifter. De upplevde också andra faktorer, såsom sociala aktiviteter, relationer och samarbeten som bidragande faktorer för att komma in i organisationen på ett smidigt och effektivt sätt. Vidare upplevde intervjupersonerna att eftersom det fanns en struktur med bestämt schema över de första två veckorna ingavs en initial trygghet och säkerhet som ny vilket därmed minskade deras osäkerhet. Därtill visade det sig att de sociala agenterna var av stor vikt för att komma in i organisationen och att företagets och koncernens företagskultur också underlättade att bli en del av arbetsplatsen. Till sist visade de kortsiktiga och långsiktiga utfallen, som dessa aktiviteter och faktorer gav på deras socialisation, att den rådande sociala gemenskapen i form av social integration och rolltydlighet uppnåddes även i och med organisationens socialisationstaktiker. De långsiktiga utfallen framkom i form av organisatoriskt engagemang från medarbetarnas sida samt att de trivdes bra och ser en långsiktighet på arbetsplatsen.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

A l’intersection d’une sociologie de la socialisation professionnelle et de la sociologie du genre, la thèse se propose d’étudier la population des femmes exerçant en chirurgie digestive. L’enquête s’appuie sur des entretiens menés avec des chirurgiens (une quarantaine de femmes et une quinzaine d’hommes) ainsi que sur du matériau ethnographique issu de stages d’observation. Le fait de restreindre l’analyse aux seules exceptions statistiques que représentent les femmes en chirurgie partait de l’hypothèse que les processus de socialisation professionnelle et les produits de cette socialisation seraient plus visibles – parce que plus problématiques, moins « naturels » – qu’en étudiant leurs homologues masculins. Mais parce que les dispositions professionnelles en chirurgie sont inextricablement construites et perçues comme « masculines », l’analyse s’est aussi attachée à la construction sociale du « féminin » ou du « masculin » chez les enquêtées exerçant ce métier. Nous étudions dans une première partie analytique comment les enquêtées qui choisissent la chirurgie s’accommodent de ce qui est rédhibitoire pour d’autres étudiantes ayant écarté la spécialité de leur choix à l’internat, à savoir la grande disponibilité temporelle exigée par le métier, l’humour grivois des opérateurs et le faible relationnel avec le patient. Dans la seconde partie des résultats, nous montrons que les femmes qui choisissent la chirurgie ont pour la plupart un patrimoine dispositionnel perçu comme « masculin » et que cette intériorisation de dispositions socialement construites comme masculines s’est faite dans le cadre de la profession, mais déjà en amont dans le cadre des socialisations antérieures (familiales, amicales…). Quelques cas d’enquêtées « féminines » sont étudiés en contrepoint. Enfin, un dernier chapitre souligne la pluralité dispositionnelle diachronique (avec une tendance à la masculinisation en début de carrière professionnelle) ainsi que la pluralité dispositionnelle synchronique (« masculines » avec les chirurgiens, elles se comporteraient de manière plus « féminine » avec les infirmières). / At the crossing of sociology of professional socialization and sociology of gender, this PdD research studies the population of women general surgeons. It is based on interviews with surgeons (about forty interviews with female surgeons and fifteen with male surgeons) and ethnographic data collected through observation. The study of the statistical exception that are female surgeons is based on the hypothesis that the process of professional socialization and its outcomes would be more visible – because more problematic, less “natural” – than through the study of male surgeons. But, because professional dispositions in surgery are inextricably built and perceived as “masculine”, the research also analyses the social construction of “feminity” and “masculinity” of women surgeons.The first part is devoted to the study of how women who choose surgery put up with some aspects of the profession that make other student avoid it. These aspects are: the business of timetable required by surgery, the lack of inter-personal relations with the patient and the coarse humour of male surgeons. The second part demonstrates that the women who choose surgery have, most of the time, a dispositional heritage perceived as “masculine” and that this incorporation of dispositions socially constructed as masculine occurred in the professional context but also, earlier on, in the context of prior socializations (familial socialization, friend socialisation…). Some “feminine” women surgeons are studied as counterpoint. Finally, the last chapter underlies diachronic dispositional plurality (with a tendency to masculinization at the beginning of the career) and synchronic dispositional plurality (“masculine” with male surgeons, they behave in a more “feminine” way with nurses).

Peer relationship plays an important role in the social development of elementary school children. Children who experience interpersonal difficulties are at high risk of adjustment problems in later adolescence and adulthood. Research evidence suggests that these children can benefit from a social skills training program. It is suggested that the training component of instruction/rationale and guided practice in a coaching program serve different functions, respectively, of enhancing social knowledge and of promoting skill performance. The present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of these components on knowledge of conversational skills, conversational skill performance, verbal interaction with peers, peer acceptance, and feeling of loneliness of target children. Thirty-six 3rd- to 5th-grade children who were identified as at least mildly rejected or neglected by their peers and deficient in specific conversational skills were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (1) instruction/rationale, (2) guided practice, and (3) control. Children in the instruction/rationale condition temporarily increased their skill knowledge, whereas children in the guided practice and control conditions showed no change. Children in the guided practice condition showed a lasting improvement in their conversational skill performance. Both skill training groups showed a delayed increase in their frequency of verbal interaction with peers, whereas children in control group showed no change. Neither control nor skill-trained children changed significantly on sociometric and loneliness measures at both posttest and follow-up. Results are interpreted in terms of a cognitive-social learning viewpoint.

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The central concern of this investigation was the determination of the relationships between Ss' perceived parent-child relations and their acceptance of the BSE model for social expectations. It was assumed that this model is a learned naive cognitive structure shared by the members of the society. It was predicted that certain parental behaviors critical to the socialization process would affect the acceptance or lack of acceptance of the BSE model. The measurement of perceived parent-child experiences was obtained through the use of the Roe-Siegelman Parent Child Relations Questionnaire (PCR). Baldwin's Social Expectations Scale was employed to obtain measures of the degree to which the BSE model could account for the variability of Ss' judgments of people-in-general in choice situations involving harming and helping behavior. Scores indicating the acceptance of the BSE model were then correlated with scores on each of the ten scales of the PCR. The results illuminated sex differences relating to the acceptance of the BSE model. For the females, warm, loving, and rewarding parent-child relations related positively to the acceptance of the BSE model. For the males, the effects of parental behavior were contingent on the individual parent. Fathers who were perceived as not overprotective or demanding and who promoted autonomous behavior in their sons were the fathers who had sons who made judgments according to the BSE model. Mothers who were perceived as demanding, punitive, and neglecting by their sons had sons who made judgments according to the BSE model. It was suggested that parental behaviors that are key factors in the development of the child's appropriate sex role may be the important factors affecting the acceptance of the BSE model for social expectations. Finally, the evidence suggested that the BSE model is capable of predicting people's social expectations, though not as effectively in the current study as in past investigations.

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