Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools

Professional Identity Crisis: Race, Class, Gender, and Success at Professional Schools
ISBN-10
0826515053
ISBN-13
9780826515056
Category
Professional education
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Author
Carrie Yang Costello

Description

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.

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