Professional identity crisis
Carrie Yang Costello · 2006
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About the book
"The fact that women and people of color tend to underperform at professional schools is a source of controversy. Conservatives blame affirmative action, while liberals blame intentional discrimination. The extensive research reported in Professional Identity Crisis belies both conspiracy theories. The author spent over 400 hours observing how first-year students are socialized in two very different environments, Boalt School of Law and the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley, watching how they adapted to different expectations of how to speak, dress, and behave in the classroom. Her research showed that the disproportionate success of white men can be explained by the fact that they are more likely to acquire appropriate professional identities swiftly, with little inner conflict, while students from less privileged backgrounds, however, suffered from "identity dissonance.""--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Vanderbilt University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN
- 9780826515056
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