Organizational socialization: the initiation into military culture

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Mozar José de
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Valéria da Glória
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/8031
• topic: organizational culture; socialization; rite of passage; cultura organizacional; socialización; rito de pasaje; cultura organizacional; socialização; rito de passagem

The aim of this paper is to study a training program as part of the recruits' socialization process, emphasizing the organizational rites, and the socialization strategies in the organizational culture of a military corporation. The analysis limits itself to a particulartraining course, and details the subjective aspects of the process experienced by the recruits initiating in the military culture. Initiation in the military culture is somewhat of a cultural shock marked by several organizational rituals, which begins with thestrong ritual of the applicants' selection. It is through these socializing rituais that the recruits lcarn the rules, the values, and the behaviors that are adequate to the military culture. Introjecting and strengthening these values inevitably requires getting rid of the civilian ones. In this process, it occurs the loss of part of the recruit's civilian identity, and it begins the construction of the military one. Brief, the soldiers formationcourse, as part of the process of socialization in the military culture,  has its pedagogical role, and implies several ritualized stratcgics, resembling, at least in terms of structure, a passage rite. From the symholic point of view, this process represents for the corporation and its members he civilian's death and the military's birth.