Inked Careers: Tattooing Professional Paths



Document title: Inked Careers: Tattooing Professional Paths
Journal: BAR - Brazilian Administration Review
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System number: 000552947
ISSN: 1807-7692
Authors: 1
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Institutions: 1Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil
Year:
Volumen: 13
Number: 4
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
English abstract The concept of career has an interdisciplinary and historical constitution, which includes persons, groups, organizations and society. Given that, we aim to deepen the interactionist notion of career from the understanding of a deviant path, supported by a theory and a method appropriated to the cited call for interdisciplinary approaches. Dilemmas (Hughes, 1958) and conflicts (Hughes, 1937) emerged as important analytical categories. Although necessary, these two concepts were not sufficient to contemplate analyses in their entirety. For this reason we conceptualized a third possibility of controversy during a career: the inquiries. The study followed the Narrative method to analyze objective and subjective changes during a tattoo artist’s career through interviews and informal conversations carried out over 22 months. The discussion presents three main contributions. Theoretically, a new understanding of the concept of careers, linking past, present and future and the idea of non-linearity of experienced and envisioned careers. Methodologically, suggesting orientations for future career studies such as the use of turning points as a methodological tool and the investigation of deviant fields. Finally, our defense of the interactionist perspective as suitable for career studies, since it allows the investigation of deviant elements.
Disciplines: Economía
Keyword: Economía del trabajo
Keyword: Careers,
Deviant careers,
Symbolic interactionism,
Tattoo,
Narratives,
Labor economics
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