From the Mouths of Babes: Exploring Families' Career Socialization of Young Children in China, Lebanon, Belgium, and the United States

What Happens Before Full-Time Employment? Internships as a Mechanism of Anticipatory Socialization

“…Although these elements of socialization may manifest prior to entry, research has yet to fully explore what constitutes socialization that occurs in anticipatory socialization. Past research has shown that prior experiences, like recruitment activities and even the messages we receive as children, socialize us into organizations and occupations (e.g., Buzzanell, Berkelaar, & Kisselburgh, 2011;Gabor, 2013;Hylmo, 2006;Levine & Hoffner, 2006;Lucas, 2011;Myers, Jahn, Gailliard, & Stoltzfus, 2011). However, we know little about how internships-a prevailing practice for most college-educated people entering the workforce today-contribute to organizational and vocational socialization.…”

“…Unfortunately, almost all vocational anticipatory socialization research has focused on how career perceptions develop at a young age (Buzzanell et al, 2011;Gabor, 2013;Hylmo, 2006;Levine & Hoffner, 2006;Lucas, 2011;Myers et al, 2011). Berkelaar (2013, p. 41) addressed this issue in her review of the socialization literature, calling for research to examine vocational anticipatory socialization throughout life.…”

“…Studies have suggested that people are socialized into vocations through messages from family, educational institutions, part-time employment, peers and friends, as well as the media (Buzzanell et al, 2011;Jablin, 1985;Levine & Hoffner, 2006;Lucas, 2011;Vangelisti, 1988). Most of the vocational anticipatory socialization research in organizational communication has centered on young participants "from childhood to young adulthood" (Jablin, 2001, p. 734).…”

Positioning Work Amid Discontinuities and Continuities

“…C. Zhang, Dik, Wei, and Zhang (2015) found that Chinese college students invoked a sense of duty for family, organization, and nation as their calling to work. Indeed, Chinese are taught to bring honor to the family starting at very young ages (Buzzanell, Berkelaar, & Kisselburgh, 2011), contributing to their own and family's mianzi, that is, others' recognition of individuals' and family's social standing and position achieved through success in life (Lockett, 1988).…”

When the Lord builds the house: An autoethnographic account of working in an evangelical for-profit organizational culture

“…For example, I assumed that the private role of religion that was articulated by my mother over family dinners was part of a universally held public/private dichotomy that would be enacted in the workplace. And these early messages from family members about work are powerful in terms of constructing expectations about careers (Berkelaar et al 2012;Buzzanell, Berkelaar, and Kisselburgh 2011;Van den, Bulck, and Van den Bergh 2005). What I did not know was how pervasive religion and spirituality are in public settings like organizations (Buzzanell and Harter 2006).…”