The Same But Different: the professional socialisation of estate management students reconsidered

This paper compares and contrasts two separate pieces of research on surveying students and practitioners completed in 1980 and 1991, by Martin Joseph and myself respectively. This paper discusses the differences in the two approaches to the research topic, and the changes which have occurred in surveying education and practice over the last ten years, not least of which has been the growing numbers of women entering an erstwhile predominantly male profession. Emphasis is placed upon how women (as against men) experience the values of the subculture and the process of professional socialisation, and related to this women's place and role within surveying education and practice is discussed.