The identity career of the graduate student: Professional socialization to academic sociology

Article Abstract:

The stages through which graduate students in sociology pass en route to a Ph.D. and the status of academic professional are discussed and the process by which people who enter into the profession choose this path, the stages that they enter and the vital turning points in their identity transformation are examined. Students often undergo radical changes in their values and consciousness as they progress through their programs, but as they forge scholarly accomplishments, they recognize that their democratic ideals must yield to the meritocratic reality of the profession.

Professional socialization

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Sociology as a vocation: Reputations and group cultures in graduate school

Article Abstract:

The experience of graduate students as tied to the social psychological processes associated with professional training is examined by considering faculty-student relationship and identifying how student identities as future sociologists are negotiated and constructed within a reputation market linked to status politics. Strategies are provided for those sociology departments that might follow to facilitate the professional socialization of graduate students, emphasizing the establishment group culture and presentational norms.

Teacher-student relationships, Teacher-student relations

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