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Early Socialization (early + socialization)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	75%

Selected Abstracts

Learning and re-learning regime support: The dynamics of post-communist regimes

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, Issue 1 2002
William Mishler
The political support of citizens of new democracies reflects two sets of experiences. Initially, people are socialized into an undemocratic regime; then, they must re-learn political support in relation to a new regime. In an established democracy, it is difficult to disentangle the effect of early socialization and current performance because both refer to the same regime. However, this is both possible and necessary in countries where there has been a change in regime. Critical questions then arise: When, whether and how do citizens determine their support for their new regime? At the start of a new regime past socialization should be more important but, after a few years, current performance should become more important. We draw on 47 Barometer surveys between 1991 and 1998 in ten more or less democratic post-communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to test the relative importance of early socialization influences, the legacy of the communist past, and the political and economic performance of new regimes. We find that economic and political performance explains the most variance in support and, secondarily, the communist legacy. Early socialization is insignificant. However, contrary to economic theories of voting, the impact of political performance is greater than the impact of economic performance in post-communist countries , and its impact is increasing. [source]

The Impact of Competing Goals, Experience, and Litigation Consciousness on Auditors' Judgments

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDITING, Issue 3 2009
Stephen K. Asare
This study uses an experiment to examine the interactive effect of goals and experience on auditors' inventory write-off assessments and the role of litigation consciousness in mediating this effect. We find that when presented with a competing compliance and client relations goal, more experienced auditors were more likely to recommend an inventory write-off than less experienced auditors. However, when presented with only a compliance goal, auditors were equally likely to recommend an inventory write-off. The finding that less experienced auditors are more influenced by client relations goals suggests that the early socialization into the profession may be dominated by client relations concerns rather than litigation concerns. Mediation results suggest that auditors' litigation consciousness is a significant mechanism which helps drive the interactive effect of goals and experience on auditors' inventory write-off assessments. Implications for research, practice, and regulation are discussed. [source]

Political attitudes, social participation and social mobility: a longitudinal analysis1

THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2008
Lindsay Paterson
Abstract It is often suggested that the political attitudes and social participation which have underpinned the welfare-state democracies have depended on large amounts of upward social mobility. The demographic heterogeneity of the service class, according to this view, induced in them a willingness to lead a common political project seeking to establish a common social citizenship. As the amount of upward mobility stagnates or even begins to fall, it has then further been claimed that there might emerge a degree of ideological closure in the service class that might erode their commitment to civic values. The 1958 British birth cohort study is used to investigate this question. Longitudinal data are invaluable here because they allow us to distinguish between two hypotheses: that upward mobility as such has induced in the service class certain attitudes and propensities to participate, or that the more important influence is the early socialization through which upwardly mobile people went. The conclusion of the analysis is that, although the civic values of the service class have not depended on upward mobility, this is much more true of cognitively able people than of others, and so is dependent on the somewhat meritocratic basis of selection into the salariat. [source]