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Lives in Science
Joseph C. Hermanowicz
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Description for Lives in Science
Hardcover. What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? This book asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 line drawing, 29 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JNM; PD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 612.
What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. He explores these scientists' shifting perceptions of their jobs to uncover the meanings they invest in their work, when and where they find satisfaction, how they succeed and fail, and how the rhythms of their work change as they age. His candid interviews with his subjects, meanwhile, shed light on ... Read more
What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country. He explores these scientists' shifting perceptions of their jobs to uncover the meanings they invest in their work, when and where they find satisfaction, how they succeed and fail, and how the rhythms of their work change as they age. His candid interviews with his subjects, meanwhile, shed light on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
323
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226327617
SKU
V9780226327617
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Ref
99-15
About Joseph C. Hermanowicz
Joseph C. Hermanowicz is associate professor of sociology at the University of Georgia and the author of The Stars Are Not Enough: Scientists - Their Passions and Professions, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Lives in Science
"Hermanowicz offers a rich, textured, nuanced look into the shifting worlds of American academic science, the key institutions in which it comes to be and the lives of the people who bring it into being. Lives in Science will be important and exciting for scholars concerned with academic or scientific careers and the sociology of knowledge and education." - Anna ... Read more