Doctoral Dissertation Research: School-Based Education as an Agent of Socialization

纽约州立大学布法罗分校的组织和机构在青少年的社会化中扮演什么角色？通过探索学生与学校工作人员的经历，研究者将进行组织分析，以更好地理解学校在青年社会化中的作用。特别是，研究人员将完成对以学校为基础的健康教育的分析，这是一种正式的、制度性的尝试，旨在培养一套特定的健康倾向。这项研究将检查基于学校的性教育（SBSE），其中的培训是基于对性传播感染和怀孕的预防性潜力的假设。然而，先前的研究并没有解决年轻人是如何理解SBSE的，所以它可能会产生这些预期的影响。同样，对SBSE政策、修辞和课程的分析也倾向于关注成年人对SBSE的看法，而很少关注学生的看法。相比之下，社会学习的研究主要集中在年轻人身上。学生从其他来源，如媒体、宗教、家庭和学校环境中接触到有关性和性的信息。这项研究将SBSE的文献与年轻人如何解读性和性信息的研究联系起来。在对来自纽约西部一所低成绩学校和一所高成绩学校的60名男孩和女孩的采访中，分析将探讨年轻人如何描述SBSE，年轻人如何描述SBSE对他们性态度的影响，以及年轻人讲述的故事在种族、阶级、性别和其他特征方面的差异。更广泛的影响该项目将通过使用多样化的本科助理团队，将来自代表性不足群体的新学者引入社会科学领域。本科生助理将获得社会科学研究方法方面的宝贵知识和经验。通过他们作为研究助理的参与，本科生将有机会获得他们学生论文的数据。此外，研究人员将向学术界（即通过会议演讲和与该领域专家的通信）以及该领域的当地从业者（即性教育教师，学校护士等）征求反馈，并反过来向学术界和公众提供分析后的报告。

SES-1303573 Mary Nell TrautnerSarah SmithSUNY at BuffaloWhat roles do organizations and institutions play in the socialization of youths? By exploring students' accounts of their experiences with school staff, the researcher will conduct an organizational analysis to better understand the role that schools have in the socialization of youth. In particular, the researcher will complete an analysis of school-based health education, which represents a formalized, institutional attempt to foster a particular set of dispositions to health. The research will examine school based sex education (SBSE) where the training is based on assumptions about its preventative potential for sexually transmitted infections and pregnancy. Prior research, however, does not address how young people make sense of SBSE so that it may have these intended effects. Similarly, analyses of SBSE policy, rhetoric, and curricula tend to focus on the ways in which adults perceive SBSE, with scant focus on students' perceptions. In contrast, studies of social learning focus on young people?s exposure to messages about sex and sexuality from other sources such as media, religion, family, and school contexts beyond the SBSE classroom. This research bridges literature on SBSE with research on how youth interpret messages about sex and sexuality. In interviews with 60 boys and girls from one low-achieving and one-high achieving school in Western New York, the analyses will address how young people describe SBSE, in what ways young people describe SBSE as having influences on their attitudes about sex, and differences in the stories youth tell across race, class, and gender, and other characteristics.Broader ImpactThis project will introduce new scholars from underrepresented groups to the field of social science through the use of a diverse group of undergraduate assistants. Undergraduate assistants will gain valuable knowledge and experience in social science research methods. Through their participation as research assistants, undergraduate students will have access to data for their student theses. Further, the researcher will solicit feedback from the academic community (i.e., via conference presentations and correspondence with experts in the field), as well as local practitioners in the field (i.e., sex education teachers, school nurses, etc.) and in-turn, provide post-analysis presentations to both academic and public audiences.