TY - CHAP
T1 - Career choice narratives
T2 - engineering personality types?
AU - Moir, James
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions. In contrast to this approach, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Engineering students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with engineering. Rather than revealing a psychological construct of a personality, the responses are considered as themselves being engineered to address the display of rational agency and deliberation in arriving at a career choice.
AB - Psychological models have portrayed career choice narratives in terms of personality dimensions. In contrast to this approach, the research reported on in this study employs a conversation analytic perspective in order to examine the deployment of career choice narratives in terms of intelligibility and accountability. Engineering students on a degree programme were interviewed about their career choice. The responses given are examined for the display of membership categories in terms of personality characteristics commonly associated with engineering. Rather than revealing a psychological construct of a personality, the responses are considered as themselves being engineered to address the display of rational agency and deliberation in arriving at a career choice.
U2 - 10.18778/8220-051-5.08
DO - 10.18778/8220-051-5.08
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9788382200515
T3 - Łódź Studies in English and General Linguistics
SP - 89
EP - 102
BT - Focus on events and narratives in language, psychology, social and medical practice
A2 - Badio, Janusz
PB - Łódź University Press
CY - Łódz
ER -