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Careers, Career Talk In this chapter, I provide evidence for the interactional constitution of an interview – both as process and as a product – leading to an irreducible nature of the resultant text. This irreducibility is at work with respect to the participants (we cannot pick out individual lines and attribute it to an individual) and with respect to time (we cannot assume that participants at some point already know what they will be talking about only minutes hence so that the knowledge at the two instances is very different). Knowing a Language is Knowing Your Way Around the World Making the Interview The Interactional Work of Producing a Question The Interactional Work of Producing an Answer The Interactional Work of Producing a Topic The Interactional Achievement of Narrative Coherence Irreducibility of Interviews Coda
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to Be a pilot or surgeon because it seems too risky to meÓ Auto/Biographical
Narratives and Life-History Accounts of Career Choice The purpose of this chapter is to articulate the possibilities for understanding that arise when researchers represent what they have learned from interviews about careers in auto/biographic perspective written in monologue form. Interviewing and Representing Research about Choosing a Career Planning 101: Getting Organized My Number One Career Number Two Career What I Definitely WonÕt Do About the Upcoming Science Internship Envisioning Future Selves W/ri(Gh)ting Lives |