Structural Precursors to Identity Processes
Structural Precursors to Identity Processes
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身份过程的结构前体
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2012
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P. Schultz
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作者：
D. Merolla;R. Serpe;S. Stryker;P. Schultz
这项研究调查了参与大学科学培训项目如何提高学生追求科学职业的意愿。利用身份理论，我们描绘了社会结构的三个层次，并将科学培训计划概念化为最接近的社会结构。 892 名理科本科生的样本结果支持身份理论，并表明参与邻近的社会结构会增加对科学身份的承诺、增加科学身份的显着性以及增加追求科学职业的意愿。这项研究通过展示参与邻近社会结构如何导致后续的身份过程，从而完善对社会如何塑造自我的理解，并阐明社会定位如何影响行为选择，为身份理论文献做出了贡献。此外，邻近社会结构的概念化为身份理论应用到其他社会干预措施以及导致社会不平等的机制的调查提供了途径。
This research investigates how participation in college-based science-training programs increases student intention to pursue a scientific career. Using identity theory, we delineate three levels of social structure and conceptualize science-training programs as proximate social structures. Results from a sample of 892 undergraduate science students are supportive of identity theory and indicate that participation in proximate social structures leads to increased commitment to a science identity, increased salience of a science identity, and increased intention to pursue a scientific career. This study contributes to the literature on identity theory by demonstrating how participation in proximate social structures can lead to subsequent identity processes, thus refining the understanding of how society shapes the self and clarifying how social positioning affects choices for behavior. Additionally, the conceptualization of proximate social structures provides an avenue for applications of identity theory to investigations of other social interventions as well as mechanisms leading to social inequality.