The purpose of this study was to enhance understanding of how parents are socialized by their children's organized youth sport participation. Five semistructured focus groups were conducted with youth sport parents (N = 26) and analyzed using qualitative methods based on Strauss and Corbin (1998). Sixty-three underlying themes reflected parents' perceived socialization experiences resulting fro...

Recent literature reviews highlight a gap in our understanding of how members socialize into virtual communities. Motivated by this shortcoming, we seek to understand how members socialize into open source software (OSS) communities, which are both virtual and normative in nature. Using the symbolic interactionist perspective, we define socialization and explicate the socialization process in O...

Attracting new contributors is a necessary but not a sufficient condition, to ensure the survival and long-term success of Free/ Open Source Software (FOSS) projects. The well-being of a FOSS project also depends on contributors performing behaviors that nurture the project and its associated community. This study is a quantitative investigation of the socialization factors that influence contr...

Using the method and theoretical perspective of language socialization, this paper examines pragmatic reframing infant behavior from distress to playfulness among !Xun San north–central Namibia. Reframing mobilizes a constellation multiple semiotic resources. For !Xun, central these resources is “gymnastic behavior,” namely, holding infants upright or moving them up down (bouncing). The analysi...

Most theoretical perspectives on neighborhood effects on youth assume that neighborhood context serves as a source of socialization, but the exact sources and processes underlying adolescent socialization in disadvantaged neighborhoods are largely unspecified and unelaborated. This paper proposes that cross-cohort socialization by older neighborhood peers is one source of socialization for adol...

In an effort to better understand the socialization of scientists I proposed to study a key stage in this socialization process with the aid of a grant from the Rice Creek Associates. Given that students pursuing a career in science inevitably work as research assistants for a scientist, I wanted to follow scientists-in-training as they go through this critical state in their socialization. Jus...

We propose the savanna theory of happiness, which suggests that it is not only the current consequences of a given situation but also its ancestral consequences that affect individuals' life satisfaction and explains why such influences of ancestral consequences might interact with intelligence. We choose two varied factors that characterize basic differences between ancestral and modern life -...

In this article, the professional socialization of university educated paramedics from the United Kingdom and Australia is discussed using the anticipatory, formal and post-formal phases of socialization. Participants for this research were from universities and ambulance services in Australia and the United Kingdom, and the data were collected and analyzed by qualitative methods. The anticipat...

Traditional theories of culture and socialization in the social and behavioral sciences have concentrated on how attitudes and values come to be “internalized” and thus shared by members of a collectivity. The emergence of practice theory challenges the classical theory of socialization and acculturation by shifting the focus of analysis away from explicit symbolic representations and towards t...