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Socialization beyond the Speech Event
Author(s) -
Wortham Stanton E. F.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
journal of linguistic anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.463
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1548-1395
pISSN - 1055-1360
DOI - 10.1525/jlin.2005.15.1.95
Subject(s) - socialization , ninth , event (particle physics) , trajectory , identification (biology) , life course approach , sociology , psychology , social psychology , physics , botany , quantum mechanics , astronomy , acoustics , biology
Socialization takes place intertextually, across events. This article develops the concept "trajectory of socialization," a connected series of events across which individuals come to participate in forms of life. The empirical analysis follows a trajectory of socialization traveled by one ninth‐grade student as she gets socialized into academic life in an urban U.S. school. This student's trajectory illustrates how connections across events emerge contingently, as both local and more widely circulating resources contribute to social identification across time.