Instead of 'top-down' control, groups function because individuals and groups learn and acquire norms and customs from their parents, families, schools, and society that inform and influence behavior whether or not this is a positive force depends on the circumstances.
Thus, they require mechanisms for acquiring and accepting norms, determining when norms are relevant to their case, and making decisions about norm compliance.
Their original beliefs and values are unaltered by their migration experience, but they acquire new norms that they "[add] to their cultural repertoire" (Levitt, 1998: 932).
Such changes in ownership have instigated processes which require journalists acquire new norms and adjust their practices.
Medical students experience a socialization process in medical school, participate in role-defining situations and acquire new norms and ideals.
During the phase of acquiring professionally-based norms, predilections and characteristics, nurses in the United States at 12-18 months of experience, for example, exhibited strong within-nursing interests.
This involves acquiring the practices and the norms of established practitioners in the field through early and continuous cognitive and practical apprenticeship experiences.
However, these studies were based on adult populations, consisting of people who have already acquired the cultural norms regarding conflict management.
These resources, which are varying across the social classes and status groups [ 19], have been suggested to influence health behaviour through the operational skills, knowledge, health considerations and norms acquired through education and socialization [ 16].
In films like "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," "Dazed and Confused" and "High School Musical 3," senior year is a do-little sabbatical from what is presented as the long dull labor of acquiring knowledge, honing skills and internalizing social norms.
