Partaking identity building: Socialization in the freshman year college

Abstract

This paper explores how the college students building a political partaking identity, through their socialization during first year studies in the liberal arts area of Veracruzana State University. This socialization is condensed in the integration of different groups, which become complex and changes its shape over time. Those groups are linked through set of practice, which combine times, specific interactions and different orientations, generating a membership of school sense, when the students define it under legitimacy schemes and recognize it as a valid space from which they may join different social protest activities