TY - GEN
T1 - How do black men succeed in IT careers? the effects of capital
AU - Joshi, K. D.
AU - Kvasny, Lynette
AU - Unnikrishnan, P.
AU - Trauth, Eileen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.
PY - 2016/3/7
Y1 - 2016/3/7
N2 - While most of the literature on Black men prescribe to a deficit model that focuses on academic failures and poverty, this work focuses on the positive by profiling Black men who have successfully entered information technology (IT) majors. Here we reveal various capitals, their accumulation, and their effects using Bourdieu's framework to inductively uncover that Black men succeed in IT careers by accumulating five forms of capital - Cultural, Social, Symbolic, Technical, and Economic - that mold their habitus. The accumulated capital affects IT Career Choices, General Skills, IT Skills, Institutional Benefits, Symbolic Benefits, Financial Benefits, Self-efficacy, Ambition, Expectations, Extra Burden, The Black Experience, and Sense of Service. These effects are well aligned with the rules of playing in the IT field.
AB - While most of the literature on Black men prescribe to a deficit model that focuses on academic failures and poverty, this work focuses on the positive by profiling Black men who have successfully entered information technology (IT) majors. Here we reveal various capitals, their accumulation, and their effects using Bourdieu's framework to inductively uncover that Black men succeed in IT careers by accumulating five forms of capital - Cultural, Social, Symbolic, Technical, and Economic - that mold their habitus. The accumulated capital affects IT Career Choices, General Skills, IT Skills, Institutional Benefits, Symbolic Benefits, Financial Benefits, Self-efficacy, Ambition, Expectations, Extra Burden, The Black Experience, and Sense of Service. These effects are well aligned with the rules of playing in the IT field.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2016.586
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2016.586
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84975491687
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 4729
EP - 4738
BT - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
A2 - Sprague, Ralph H.
A2 - Bui, Tung X.
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 49th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2016
Y2 - 5 January 2016 through 8 January 2016
ER -