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This work reports on a range of research studies in the career field that use biographical, narrative, and ecological approaches within an interpretive framework. It responds to the recognized dissonance between career theory and research, on the one part, and practice, on the other. It also responds to the view that in recent years practice has outstripped career theory and research. The qualitative approaches used in the research reported have gained popularity in the social sciences in recent years, but have been largely untried in the career field.
This work offers specific interpretive studies that range over the life span and involve a number of perspectives including contexts such as parental influence, socio-political milieu, early career studies of apprentices, medical students, and nurses, studies of the established careers of secretaries, women entrepreneurs, teachers, and studies of the careers of older workers. In addition, the book contains interpretive studies pertaining to career theory, counseling and other interventions, and the research process. It also recognizes issues highlighted by a postmodernist perspective. A number of audiences will find this book useful: industrial/organizational psychologists, counseling psychologists, career counselors, counselor educators, and researchers in the career area from psychology and sociology.
List of contents
Introduction
Constructing Career Through Narrative and Context: An Interpretive Perspective by Audrey Collin and Richard A. Young
Hermeneutical Studies of the Experience of CareerGreat Expectations? Toward an Understanding of the Life Plan by Heather J. Hopfl
The Construction of a Moral Career in Medicine by Kevin D. Murray
Developmental Processes of Young Women in a Caring Profession: A Qualitative Life-Event Study by Toni Faltermaier
The Notion of Managerial and Clerical Careers as They Emerge from Descriptions of Self and Coworkers by Anne Statham
Advancing an Ecological Perspective of Vocational Development: The Construction of Personal Work Integration by Jane A. Grimstad
Patterns of Unhappiness in Men's Careers by Richard L. Ochberg
Entrepreneurial Women and the Relational Component of Identity: A Hermeneutical Study of Career by Richard A. Young and Ronni Richards
Interpreting the End of a Career by Bill Bytheway
Hermeneutical Studies of Career Theory, Research, and PracticeAutonomy and Learning about Work by Bill Law
Career Decisions: A Critical Psychology by Tod Sloan
Time to Reflect: Biographical Study, Personal Insight, and Professional Development by Pat Sikes and Kath Aspinwall
The Experience of Carrying Out a Hermeneutical Study by Audrey Collin
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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Audrey Collin, Richard A. Young
