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Professional identity crisis : race, class, gender, and success at professional schools /
"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 theor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Nashville, Tenn. :
Vanderbilt University Press,
2005.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 264 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-258) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780826592033 0826592031 1282452037 9781282452039 9786612452031 661245203X |