- Title Pages
- Notes on contributors
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One Introduction -
Two Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective -
Three Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment -
Four Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship -
Five Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation1 -
Six The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided -
Seven A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering1 -
Eight Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation -
Nine Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of east german managers -
Ten Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men -
Eleven The biographical turn in health studies -
Twelve Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis -
Thirteen Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages -
Fourteen ‘Bucking and kicking’: race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare -
Fifteen Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research -
Sixteen ‘It’s in the way that you use it’: biography as a tool in professional social work -
Seventeen Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context -
Eighteen In quest of teachers’ professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool -
Nineteen Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy -
Twenty Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health -
Twenty One Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what’s new in Germany - Index
Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation
Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation
- Chapter:
- (p.114) (p.115) Eight Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation
- Source:
- Biographical methods and professional practice
- Author(s):
Victoria Semenova
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter uses the case of Sergei to show the huge difference in moral worlds between public and private sectors in Russia, and the difficulties of a researcher achieving emotional empathy across such cultural divides. In this chapter, the questions: what is the difference in business culture between these two spheres in the eye of professionals?; what are the significant advantages and disadvantages of each situation from the standpoint of career choice?; and are these cultural models the leitmotif of professional choice? are addressed and examined.
Keywords: Sergei, public sectors, private sectors, Russia, business culture, cultural models
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- Title Pages
- Notes on contributors
-
One Introduction -
Two Biographical methods and social policy in European perspective -
Three Balancing precarious work, entrepreneurship and a new gendered professionalism in migrant self-employment -
Four Considerations on the biographical embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship -
Five Ethnic entrepreneurship as innovation1 -
Six The social subject in biographical interpretive methods: emotional, mute, creative, divided -
Seven A socially and historically contextualised psychoanalytic perspective: Holocaust survival and suffering1 -
Eight Professional choices between private and state positions in Russia’s transformation -
Nine Maintaining a sense of individual autonomy under conditions of constraint: a study of east german managers -
Ten Biographical reflections on the problem of changing violent men -
Eleven The biographical turn in health studies -
Twelve Ethical aspects of biographical interviewing and analysis -
Thirteen Ghost writers: using biographical methods across languages -
Fourteen ‘Bucking and kicking’: race, gender and embodied resistance in healthcare -
Fifteen Biography as empowering practice: lessons from research -
Sixteen ‘It’s in the way that you use it’: biography as a tool in professional social work -
Seventeen Interpreting the needs of homeless men: interviewing in context -
Eighteen In quest of teachers’ professional identity: the life story as a methodological tool -
Nineteen Narratives, community organisations and pedagogy -
Twenty Doctors on an edge: a cultural psychology of learning and health -
Twenty One Intercultural perspectives and professional practice in the university: what’s new in Germany - Index
