A Differential Association Theory of Socialization to Commercialist Career Paths in Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5337007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David R Johnson (0000-0003-1094-1341, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 381-404 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0162243919854514 |
| OpenAlex | W2948356173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 19 |
Drawing on sixty-one in-depth interviews conducted with commercial and noncommercial scientists at four universities in the United States, this paper examines why academic scientists embrace commercially oriented career paths in higher education. A central goal of this paper is to expand our descriptive and conceptual understanding of socialization in the academic profession by examining the explanatory power of differential association theory. Differential association theory emphasizes how patterns of behavior are learned through a process of interaction with different types of individuals with varying ideas about the acceptability of a particular course of action. The results demonstrate that socialization to commercialism is an interactive learning process in which scientists learn definitions that are favorable to commercial career trajectories. Such learning is often necessary because prior socialization can either lead to unfavorable views of commercialization or shelter doctoral students from techniques of and rationales for commercialization
Business · Commercialism · Commercialization · Differential association · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Mathematics education · Political science · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Computer Science · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions · Engineering · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Psychology · scientometrics and bibliometrics research · Social Psychology · Marketing
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The Boundary Work of Commercialists in Academe
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Positive and negative deviance
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |