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  4. Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies
 
Verlagslink DOI
10.1177/0018726720964261

Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies

Veröffentlichungsdatum
2020
Autoren
Tams, Svenja  
Kennedy, Jeffrey  
Arthur, Michael B  
Chan, Kim Yin  
Zusammenfassung
With careers increasingly taking place within and between cities, this article maps the territory for research and theory on careers in cities. Cities present a microcosm for advancing a systemic understanding of people’s careers over time and in relation to broader issues. We acknowledge cities’ multilayered contexts by identifying six spheres—locality and networks, material infrastructure, economic activities, non-work, virtual reconfiguration, and nexus of social change. The interplay between careers and these city spheres informs intertwined phenomena such as well-being, mobility, and migration. To guide further research, our framework distinguishes two meta-theoretical perspectives. An entity perspective examines causal relationships across levels, analyzing how urban characteristics explain career-related phenomena, and vice versa. A constructionist perspective examines how people’s construal of careers in cities draws on cultural repertoires about work, non-work life, and the city, including its social, symbolic, and material aspects. We use the framework to discuss contributions of the five articles of this special issue. A career lens can contribute to our understanding of cities being sources of both stability and change. With cities currently facing significant disruptions, there has never been a more appropriate time for careers researchers to incorporate the city as context.
Verlag
Sage
Institution
Hochschule Bremen  
Fachbereich
Hochschule Bremen - Fakultät 1: Wirtschaftswissenschaften - School of International Business (SiB)  
Dokumenttyp
Artikel/Aufsatz
Zeitschrift/Sammelwerk
Human Relations  
Band
74
Heft
5
Startseite
635
Endseite
655
Sprache
Englisch

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