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Dealing with the Transsituational Demands of Professional Socialization

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ID3951269
AuthorsRosaline S Barbour (corresponding author)
Year1985
Volume33
Issue3
Pages495-531
Publication date1985-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.1985.tb02437.x
OpenAlexW1989158147
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Insofar as studies of professional socialization have been concerned with the subjective experience of students they have concentrated on students' experience within the confines of their training course. The present paper examines that parallel but often neglected strand in professional socialization: what becoming a professional entails for students within the context of their private lives. An in-depth participant observation study of one cohort of social work students revealed that assuming a professional identity had important consequences for both the self-concept and social lives of students. They were faced with 'transsituational demands' - i.e. expectations that they would behave in situations where they were not functioning as social workers in a manner which was nevertheless congruent with their claims to this title. Such reorganization of students' personal hierarchies was both evidenced and accomplished by the 'frame work' in which students engaged. Goffman's frame analysis is expanded to include the concept of 'cross-framing' in order to explain students' responses to the encroachment of the social-work frame on their everyday world. Although social work as a profession does make extensive demands on the private space of the recruit, it is argued that the analysis developed here can be used to study empirically the internalization of the beliefs associated with any occupational role

Context (archaeology) · Frame analysis · Framing (construction) · Socialization · Sociology · Psychology · Research in Social Sciences · Social Psychology · Social Work Education and Practice

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,13
Citation span1994 - 2016 (23)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 3

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