Toward a Theory of Latino Male Occupational Identity Development: The Role of Peer Identification

This article is the third of a three-part qualitative study that retrospectively explored the pre-adult occupational identity development of 20 working-class and white-collar young Latino men. The focus of this article is on the fifth and final pre-adult stage of identity development. Identity theory proposes that the fifth stage of identity development is marked by identity confusion and identity exploration through peer identification. How...