work setting tend to model their behaviors, attitudes, and values on constructs that are expressed by mentors or role models. Acculturation to the environment fosters adaptation of the roles that are to be expressed.
Goffman (2003, p. 634) argued that the self "is not a property of the person to whom it is attributed, but dwells rather in the pattern of social control that is exerted in connection with the person by himself and those around him." In the case of both the educational administrator and the attending physician observed and interviewed for this assignment, Goffman's (2003) statement seems particularly accurate. Each of these two professionals stated that they felt themselves to be representatives not only of the institution for which they worked and the discipline in which they functioned, but also of the norms and values of those institutions. This was evident in the fact that the educational administrator continually spoke of such matters as multiculturalism, diversity, inclusiveness, and empowerment -- terms
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