Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies' career‐related human potential and proactive career behaviour
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"Careers in context: An internationa..." refers background or methods in this paper
...…career structuration model (Barley, 1989; Giddens, 1984) and explain how we use a revised version of Barley's approach by referring to the concept of mesostructures (Maines, 1982; Maines & Charlton, 1985) to develop a mediated model linking societal context via mesostructure to career behaviour....
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...…shall call them here) are manifested in individual and organisational actors' shared stock of practical knowledge (Duberley, Mallon, & Cohen, 2006; Maines, 1982) about contextually possible, sensible, and appropriate career behaviours for fashioning a course through the societal world (Barley,…...
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...Mesostructures are “the settings of rules, norms, and processes through which social life is mediated” (Little, 2012: 7), the “realms of human conduct through which social structures are processed and social processes become structured” (Maines, 1982: 277)....
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...…and organisational actors' shared stock of practical knowledge (Duberley, Mallon, & Cohen, 2006; Maines, 1982) about contextually possible, sensible, and appropriate career behaviours for fashioning a course through the societal world (Barley, 1989; Dokko et al., 2019; Giddens, 1984; Maines, 1982)....
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...We show how conceptualising the link between macrostructure and action within societies using the related concept of mesostructures (Fine & Hallett, 2014; Maines, 1982; Strauss, 1978) helps provide useful conceptual clarity....
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