Table 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 Career
Great 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 Practice
Autonomy 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

Promotional Information

This work reports on a range of research studies in the career field that use biological, narrative, and ecological approaches within an interpretive framework. In addition, the book contains interpretive studies pertaining to career theory, counseling and other interventions, and the research process.

About the Author

RICHARD YOUNG is Associate Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. He is the co-editor, with William Borgen, of Methodological Approaches to the Study of Career (Praeger, 1990), and has published in the Journal of Counseling and Development, Human Relations, Career Development Quarterly, and Canadian Journal of Counselling.

AUDREY COLLIN is Reader in Organizational Behavior in the Department of Human Resource Management, De Monfort University. She has published in Human Relations, Canadian Journal of Counselling, British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, and Journal of Applied Systems Analysis, and has contributed chapters to Peter Reason and John Rowan's Human Inquiry: A Sourcebook of New Paradigm Research (1981) and Richard Young and William Borgen's Methodological Approaches to the Study of Career (Praeger, 1990).