Socialization as sensemaking
A semiotic analysis of international graduate students' narratives in the USA
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098625 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tatiana Suspitsyna (0000-0003-0447-1427, The Ohio State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1351-1364 |
| Publication date | 2013-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075079.2011.629343 |
| OpenAlex | W2052665616 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 42 |
Drawing on the data from interviews with 32 international students, this qualitative study applies Weick's framework of organizational sensemaking to the analysis of international graduate students' socialization in the academic and student communities in a large US university. Methodologically, the analysis relies on a semiotic chain technique to uncover direct and connotative meanings of academic departments and student communities in the respondents' home and host universities, which in the interviews are presented as oppositions between ‘we’ and ‘they’. Examining the ‘we’ versus ‘they’ dichotomies as conflicts between the students' old and new mental scripts, the author finds that international students are more accepting of the academic ethos of their host departments than of the American peer culture. International students' attitude toward diversity is especially ambivalent, because diversity may clash with their home-grown scripts about hierarchies of nationalities, ethnicities, religions and norms of heterosexuality
Epistemology · Ethos · Higher education · Narrative · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Semiotics · Sensemaking · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Higher Education and Employability · Higher Education Governance and Development · International Student and Expatriate Challenges · Psychology
Sensemaking in organizations
Leaving the Ivory Tower
Course in General Linguistics
A Theory of Semiotics
“I Heard it through the Grapevine”
Sensemaking and sensegiving in strategic change initiation
Enhancing Campus Climates for Racial/Ethnic Diversity
Welcome to America? International student perceptions of discrimination
Preparing the Next Generation of Faculty
Strategies for Interpreting Qualitative Data
Organizational Socialization in Higher Education
Fitting the Mold of Graduate School
Socialization to the Academic Culture
Excellence, leadership, skills, diversity
The impact of student experiences with diversity on developing graduate attributes
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
The Whens and Wheres - As Well As Hows - of Ethnolinguistic Recognition
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |