ABSTRACT
Part of the socialization into any profession is understanding and adopting the vocabulary and practices of that profession. Along the way, values and perspectives are also conveyed. Becoming socialized into a profession means:
adopting a system of language, thought and action that becomes standard and customary within the social order … In professions such as special education there is a tendency to adopt an orthodoxy as vital to the identity and purpose of the profession … Unity, coherence, direction
and political power are achieved through the continued proliferation of orthodox writings and the conforming inculcation of the professional ranks into the institutional order.
