Browsing by Subject "Careers"

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    Gendered careers in changing social and institutional contexts: criminology in the post-WWII era
    (2009-03) Flood, Sarah M.
    This dissertation is simultaneously a study in the sociology of science, especially criminology, the life course, and gender relations in academia. I examine careers of male and female criminologists spanning nearly six decades in the post-WWII United States from a life course perspective, focusing on both careers stages and career trajectories as well as investigating differences by cohort membership, gender, and graduate department affiliation. Survey and interview data along with detailed information about crime-related scholarship published in leading sociology and criminology journals illustrate the unfolding of careers over time and offer insights into how and why careers progressed as they did. Cohort membership helps us understand how large scale changes affected individual opportunities and experiences, though career mobility and trajectories were largely stable over time. While gender initially appeared to play a limited role in the careers of male and female scholars, explicit attention to work and family life in the analysis of career trajectories demonstrated how the lives of scholars are clearly gendered at their intersection. Graduate department differences reflected both the concentration of specialized training programs in non-Research 1 institutions and the career opportunities available. My work illustrates the strengths of the life course approach, considering specific historical, social, and institutional contexts, demonstrating the interlock of work and family life, and showing the importance of early career experiences for institutional mobility and career trajectories. At the same time, my findings also contribute to our knowledge about the history and sociology of criminology, the empirical examination of careers, and work in the stratification of science.
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    Insider Tips on Applying to Graduate School (2014-10-29)
    (2014) Tsantir, Dean C
    Speaker Dean Tsantir University of Minnesota Twin Cities Director of Graduate Admissions and Recruitment addresses applying to graduate school.
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    Minnesota Education Job Fair 2014 (2014-04-08)
    (2014) Minnesota Education Job Fair Association; University of Minnesota Duluth. Career and Internship Services
    Pre-register for the fair by April 2, 2014 in GoldPASS www.goldpass.umn.edu, Approximately 109 districts and organizations attended in 2013 including 58 districts from Minnesota, 15 different states, 5 countries. Best & most effective way to find teaching jobs in the state of Minnesota. Interview & attend district presentations. Getting Ready for the Education Job Fair Workshop April 2, 2014 5 to 6 pm at 22 Solon Campus Center at UMD.
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    "That rich, rich quality of existence": mothers with professional careers talk about their experiences of flourishing.
    (2010-05) Andrews, Margaret
    This study uses data from the Changing Landscape of American Women study to explore whether and how mothers with professional careers experience a state of well-being known as flourishing. The Changing Landscape of American Women study is a USDA-approved multi-state research effort. Investigators are collecting data from Latina immigrants, farm and ranch women, and women with professional careers to explore how women's media may impact their ability to achieve work, family and personal satisfaction. The present paper looks at data from thirty-three mothers with professional careers who live and work in the greater Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The women each participated in one of five focus groups sessions to discuss the challenges and satisfactions of their busy lives. Analytic induction was used to code their comments according to operational definitions of symptoms of flourishing; then narrative analysis techniques were applied to distill their conversation to an overall expression of flourishing. The women reported in their own words that they do experience the state of flourishing. The results indicate that for the women who participated in the study, the biggest challenge to flourishing was living in a social context that was at odds with the realities of their lives as mothers with professional careers. Despite this challenge, the women explicitly expressed that they did experience the state of flourishing. For them, flourishing involved the internal characteristics of desiring to combine career and motherhood in their lives, and being realistic about what they could accomplish. Flourishing also involved having external resources that included a spouse they could rely on, a strong network of social support, and a good amount of flexibility in their lives. Practice implications include recommendations that counselors and educators work to help women who want to combine career and family understand the symptoms of flourishing and how other women have experienced them. Implications for employers who want to maximize the talent of their employees who are mothers with professional careers include explicitly acknowledging that many highly educated women want to have both a challenging career and a healthy family. Allowing these women the flexibility to map out a unique pattern for successfully combining the two domains in their lives will be important.