Occupational socialization and working lives

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Occupational socialization and working lives

edited by Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson

(Cardiff papers in qualitative research)

Avebury, c1994

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This volume presents a collection of studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work. It includes detailed, empirically based accounts of a variety of occupational settings. Included are: social workers; trainee midwives; prison officers; accountants; teachers; psychiatrists; postgraduate research students. All these works follow the tradition of qualitative research that has been developed at Cardiff.

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  • The happy family - learning colleagueship in a social work team
  • collective responsibility and individual success - the early training experiences of graduate accountants
  • prison officers and their survival strategies
  • retreat and regroup - occupational boundaries of teaching in a special school
  • "there is more than one way to kill a cat" - making sense of post-experience professional training
  • novices and experts
  • initial encounters in midwifery
  • reproducing psychiartry
  • suspended between two stools - doctoral students in British higher education.

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