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The individual and departmental factors affecting graduate students' p
rofessional socialization were studied by employing data from 309 PhD
students in 16 graduate programs in sociology. Using Rosenbaum's tourn
ament model of opportunity structures and aspects of Tinto's model of
social psychological integration, this study examines students' access
to initial funding, resources in the department, indicators of prior
ability, current professional activities, mentoring processes, and soc
ial psychological factors for their effects on socialization into the
academic profession. Access to initial funding and to mentoring have s
ubstantial effects on PhD students' professional socialization, but pr
ove to be less than rational processes in the graduate program. This s
ocialization process is found to be based more on particularistic than
on universalistic criteria in the allocation of departmental resource
s and mentoring. Implications for graduate student mentoring, funding,
and divergent career paths are highlighted.