Trotman Studies in Careers, Employability and Transitions – serie
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 398 kr
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This fascinating research monograph offers a new and comprehensive analysis of how career: emerged as a social category can be more rigorously theorised to support future analysis, and can be reconceptualised to support new forms of living and working. Esteemed authors, Tristram Hooley and Rie Thomsen, explore the concept of career in contemporary society and sociology to establish career as an explanatory category for critical social analyses. They build on this analysis to argue that the concept of career can be used as part of a project of personal and societal emancipation. Drawing on historical, sociological and psychological evidence, the authors describe the contemporary environment for careers. In the process of conducting a thorough analysis of the forms and rhetorics of career, they reconceptualise the concept of career, untethering it from its origins in twentieth century capitalism and re-imagining it as an emancipatory and democratic concept. This re-conceptualisation prompts them to analyse how the career concept can be used to support people in the contemporary world; to rethink their lives and what they derive meaning from, to imagine better worlds, and to develop new forms of society. To date, work examining the phenomenon of career has confined itself to a particular strand of research. This has either focused on the experience of the individual and how to best support individual career development (in career studies), on the organisation (organisation and management studies), or, rarely, on how career fits into the political economy and ideal society (sociology, economics and political science). This ground-breaking book combines all these different strands and, in doing so, develops a new theory of career.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 398 kr
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‘This is an amazing book which explores careers from an extremely original perspective and does it in a very readable way ... I learnt a huge amount while reading it and was enormously impressed with the way that it draws such diverse influences together into a coherent whole.’Professor Tristram HooleyThis is a book about career theory; it addresses concepts to describe people’s careers. Significantly, it enhances career development practice to support individuals to make informed choices and further their lives. It is inspired by the Capability Approach, a moral framework developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, which addresses issues of social justice, freedom and wellbeing. Professor Robertson draws on systems thinking and innovatively applies it to career development. He develops a way of thinking that promotes a ‘big picture’ overview of careers, which, in turn, facilitates an understanding of the full range of helping strategies open to practitioners. The result is a theory designed to support practitioners’ understanding; not an approach that exists solely to further academic discourse. Additional insights and perspectives from the disciplines of economics, philosophy and politics will ensure that this becomes a foundational text and will provide a major and long-lasting contribution to scholarship in this field.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
494 kr
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This fascinating research monograph offers a new and comprehensive analysis of how career: emerged as a social category can be more rigorously theorised to support future analysis, and can be reconceptualised to support new forms of living and working. Esteemed authors, Tristram Hooley and Rie Thomsen, explore the concept of career in contemporary society and sociology to establish career as an explanatory category for critical social analyses. They build on this analysis to argue that the concept of career can be used as part of a project of personal and societal emancipation. Drawing on historical, sociological and psychological evidence, the authors describe the contemporary environment for careers. In the process of conducting a thorough analysis of the forms and rhetorics of career, they reconceptualise the concept of career, untethering it from its origins in twentieth century capitalism and re-imagining it as an emancipatory and democratic concept. This re-conceptualisation prompts them to analyse how the career concept can be used to support people in the contemporary world; to rethink their lives and what they derive meaning from, to imagine better worlds, and to develop new forms of society. To date, work examining the phenomenon of career has confined itself to a particular strand of research. This has either focused on the experience of the individual and how to best support individual career development (in career studies), on the organisation (organisation and management studies), or, rarely, on how career fits into the political economy and ideal society (sociology, economics and political science). This ground-breaking book combines all these different strands and, in doing so, develops a new theory of career.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
494 kr
Kommande
‘This is an amazing book which explores careers from an extremely original perspective and does it in a very readable way ... I learnt a huge amount while reading it and was enormously impressed with the way that it draws such diverse influences together into a coherent whole.’Professor Tristram HooleyThis is a book about career theory; it addresses concepts to describe people’s careers. Significantly, it enhances career development practice to support individuals to make informed choices and further their lives. It is inspired by the Capability Approach, a moral framework developed by Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen, which addresses issues of social justice, freedom and wellbeing. Professor Robertson draws on systems thinking and innovatively applies it to career development. He develops a way of thinking that promotes a ‘big picture’ overview of careers, which, in turn, facilitates an understanding of the full range of helping strategies open to practitioners. The result is a theory designed to support practitioners’ understanding; not an approach that exists solely to further academic discourse. Additional insights and perspectives from the disciplines of economics, philosophy and politics will ensure that this becomes a foundational text and will provide a major and long-lasting contribution to scholarship in this field.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 398 kr
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How do career guidance practitioners exercise professional judgement in contexts shaped by uncertainty, competing demands and constant change? Drawing on sociology, policy implementation research, street-level bureaucracy, and theories of improvisation, Ida Holth Mathiesen challenges conventional understandings of professional practice as the straightforward application of methods or policies. Instead, she demonstrates how career guidance is continuously enacted through professional judgement, relationships, organisational conditions and the realities of everyday work. This book:•Introduces the concepts of contextual, political, and relational balance, showing how practitioners negotiate tensions between local needs, policy demands, and the interests of guidance seekers. •Develops the innovative ideas of Improvisational Career Guidance and Mission Musicality, offering new ways to understand professional discretion, responsiveness and the collective negotiation of career guidance's purpose. •Explores the contribution of career guidance to participation and democratic engagement, highlighting how practitioners support individuals while responding to broader social and structural conditions. Bringing together diverse strands of research and theory, this thought-provoking volume provides a rich conceptual framework for understanding professional practice in career guidance and beyond. It will be essential reading for researchers, postgraduate students, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to understand how professional work is negotiated and sustained in an increasingly complex and changing world.