Careers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies

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dc.citation.issue5
dc.citation.volume74
dc.contributor.authorTams S
dc.contributor.authorKennedy JC
dc.contributor.authorArthur MB
dc.contributor.authorChan KY
dc.date.available2021-05
dc.date.issued2021-05
dc.descriptionCAUL read and publish agreement 2023
dc.description.abstractWith careers increasingly taking place within and between cities, this article maps the territory for research and theory on careers in cities. Cities present a microcosm for advancing a systemic understanding of people’s careers over time and in relation to broader issues. We acknowledge cities’ multilayered contexts by identifying six spheres—locality and networks, material infrastructure, economic activities, non-work, virtual reconfiguration, and nexus of social change. The interplay between careers and these city spheres informs intertwined phenomena such as well-being, mobility, and migration. To guide further research, our framework distinguishes two meta-theoretical perspectives. An entity perspective examines causal relationships across levels, analyzing how urban characteristics explain career-related phenomena, and vice versa. A constructionist perspective examines how people’s construal of careers in cities draws on cultural repertoires about work, non-work life, and the city, including its social, symbolic, and material aspects. We use the framework to discuss contributions of the five articles of this special issue. A career lens can contribute to our understanding of cities being sources of both stability and change. With cities currently facing significant disruptions, there has never been a more appropriate time for careers researchers to incorporate the city as context.
dc.description.publication-statusPublished
dc.format.extent635 - 655
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dc.identifierARTN 0018726720964261
dc.identifier.citationHUMAN RELATIONS, 2021, 74 (5), pp. 635 - 655
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0018726720964261
dc.identifier.eissn1741-282X
dc.identifier.elements-id435511
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0018-7267
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10179/15816
dc.publisherSAGE Publications on behalf of the Tavistock Institute
dc.relation.isPartOfHUMAN RELATIONS
dc.subjectcareers
dc.subjectcities
dc.subjecteconomic development
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectquality of life
dc.subjecturban policymaking
dc.subject.anzsrc1503 Business and Management
dc.subject.anzsrc1608 Sociology
dc.subject.anzsrc1701 Psychology
dc.titleCareers in cities: An interdisciplinary space for advancing the contextual turn in career studies
dc.typeJournal article
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pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School
pubs.organisational-group/Massey University/Massey Business School/School of Management
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