Adjudication of Student Awareness in Professional Socialization: The Language of Laughter and Silences

Abstract

THREE CENTRAL and related tasks in professional socialization, shared mutually by students, faculty, and the socializing institution, are (1) to bring the student to awareness of what is required in the professional role; (2) to lead him to recognize himself in this role; and (3) to foster in him the capacity to properly communicate about himself as a professional. Presumably, successful accomplishment of this triple-identity objective yields a professional who recognizes that he is separated from laymen by virtue of being aware of special knowledge, skills, and insights that accrue to his occupation and who is able to communicate that recognition of himself to others.'