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The moral career of the mental patient.

Erving Goffman
- 01 May 1959 - 
- Vol. 22, Iss: 2, pp 123-142
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1959-05-01. It has received 379 citations till now.

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Career success in a boundaryless career world.

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Psychological success: When the career is a calling

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Motivation, Governance, and the Viability of Hybrid Forms in Open Source Software Development

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Introduction: Constructivism and social constructionism in the career field.

TL;DR: The impact of constructivism and social constructionism upon vocational psychology has often been through the use of the more generic "constructivism" as mentioned in this paper, which claims that knowledge and meaning are historically and culturally constructed through social processes and action.
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Culture And Personality

TL;DR: The most significant trends of this period are: a fractionation of group character studies from studies of total personality to investigations of more limited components or aspects of personality; an increasing methodological rigor in child-development investigations; the emergence of social psychiatry as a major subject of specialization for anthropologists; a re-focusing of interests in culture change, from "slow" acculturation processes to processes of "rapid" culture change; the beginning of a crystallization of theory in an area that may loosely be called "communication and cognition"; and the first signs of an interest