Routledge Revivals
Occupational Socialization and Working
Lives
Published in 1994, this book gathers together a series of original studies on occupational socialization and the everyday realities of work. It includes detailed, empirically based accounts of a variety of occupational settings. Included are: social workers; trainee midwives; prison officers; accountants; teachers; psychiatrists; postgraduate research students. They all reflect the tradition of qualitative research that has been developed at Cardiff.
This book was originally published as part of the Cardiff Papers in Qualitative Research series edited by Paul Atkinson, Sara Delamont and Amanda Coffey. The series publishes original sociological research that reflects the tradition of qualitative and ethnographic inquiry developed at Cardiff. The series includes monographs reporting on empirical research, edited collections focussing on particular themes, and texts discussing methodological developments and issues.
Occupational Socialization and
Working Lives
Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson
First published in 1994
by Ashgate Publishing Ltd
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1994 Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey
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Occupational Socialization
and Working Lives
Edited by
AMANDA COFFEY AND PAUL ATKINSON
School of Social and Administrative Studies
University of Wales
Cardiff
Avebury
Aldershot Brookfield USA Hong Kong Singapore Sydney
A. Coffey and P. Atkinson 1994
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Occupational Socialization and Working
Lives - (Cardiff Papers in Qualitative
Research)
I. Coffey, Amanda II. Atkinson, Paul
III. Series
306.36
ISBN 1 85628 574 X
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Coffey, Amanda, 1967
Occupational socialization and working lives / Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson
p. cm. (Cardiff papers in qualitative research)
ISBN 1-85658-574-X : $55.95 (est.)
1. OccupationsSociological aspects. 2. Professions-Sociological aspects. I. Atkinson, Paul. II. Title.
III. Series.
HT675.C641994
306.36--dc20
94-12176
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Contents
Amanda Coffey and Paul Atkinson
Andrew Pithouse
Amanda Coffey
Keith Carter
Stuart Todd
Jane Salisbury
Ruth M. Davies
Robin Bunton
Sara Delamont, Odette Parry, Paul Atkinson and Andy Hiken
Paul Atkinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He has extensive research and publishing experience on medicine, education and qualitative methods.
Robin Bunton is lecturer in the School of Human Studies, University of Teesside. He completed his PhD at Cardiff, and has wide research and publishing experience in health promotion.
Keith Carter is a postgraduate student at the School of Social and Administrative Studies University of Wales, Cardiff. His current research is on the occupational culture of prison officers.
Amanda Coffey is a lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. She has published on gender and education, and on professional accountancy training. Her current research interests include initial teaching training, and women and citizenship.
Ruth M. Davies is Senior Professional Officer in Midwifery at the Welsh National Board for Nursing, Health Visiting and Midwifery. In addition to her professional qualifications in nursing and midwifery she holds an M.Sc.Econ. in Methods and Applications of Social Research from Cardiff.
Sara Delamont is Reader in Sociology in the School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. She has published widely on the sociology of education, the sociology and social history of women, qualitative research methods and European anthropology.
Andy Hiken is a graduate of Harvard and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Davis (where he worked with Paul Atkinson). His research interests include adult socialization and he has published on the teaching of sociology.
Odette Parry has been an undergraduate, a postgraduate and a research fellow at Cardiff. Her research has included work on naturists, journalism students and postgraduates in the natural and social sciences. She is currently a lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica.
Andrew Pithouse lectures in social work in the School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. His research interests focus on welfare occupational settings with specific regard to service evaluation, user involvement and policy development. His current interests address the effectiveness of family centre practice and its impact on preventing child abuse.
Jane Salisbury was a tutorial fellow in the School of Social and Administrative Studies and now lectures in the School of Education, University of Wales Cardiff. Her doctoral research was on the professional socialization of Further Education teachers.
Stuart Todd is a researcher in the Mental Handicap in Wales Research Unit, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Wales College of Medicine. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Social and Administrative Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff.