Continuity and Change: Making Sense of the German Model

This essay considers how the traditional concept of career retains its power in an age of contingency, short-termism and gig work. To answer this question, it introduces and explicates the concept of the ‘career imagination’. This concept has three key dimensions: perceptions of enablement and constraint, time and identity. Situated in the nexus of structure and agency, it is through our career imagination that we envisage and evaluate the progress of our working lives. Encapsulating continuity and change, our career imagination helps us to understand the enduring legitimacy of the traditional career as a yardstick by which to measure success, and the emergence of new possibilities.

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‘I Am Doing a Double Thing. It Is For Me and It Is For Her’

Young ◽

10.1177/1103308817715144 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 332-347 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Erwin Dimitri Selimos

Keyword(s):

General Situation ◽

New Host ◽

Refugee Youth ◽

Transitions To Adulthood ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Making Sense ◽

Migration Narratives ◽

Future Selves ◽

Intergenerational Links ◽

Immigrant And Refugee

This article draws on 30 interviews conducted with newcomer immigrant and refugee youth in Canada to explore how they make sense of their migration and the consequences these meanings have on how they imagine their future selves. The article is based on the understanding that a key task of any immigrant is to negotiate the experiences of continuity and change indicative of the migration experience—a task that takes on unique contours for young immigrants who are simultaneously negotiating their transitions to adulthood. Analysis of the migration narratives of newcomer youth demonstrates that in making sense of their migration, young migrants draw on the general situation of their country of descent, their experiences of emigration and poignant intergenerational links to construct meaning of their lives in their new country of residence. These meanings orient their social actions and animate their life projects in their new host society.

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Making Sense of Change: Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation—An Introduction

Methodological Approaches to Societies in Transformation ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-65067-4_1 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-29

Author(s):

Yasmine Berriane ◽

Annuska Derks ◽

Aymon Kreil ◽

Dorothea Lüddeckens

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Analytical Framework ◽

Levels Of Analysis ◽

Unit Of Analysis ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Making Sense ◽

Data Collection And Analysis ◽

The Relationship ◽

Emic And Etic

AbstractIn this introductory chapter the authors discuss ways of studying change that go beyond a chronology of events and sweeping laws of evolution and that take into account the ways in which people live through, experience, desire, create, and challenge change. How can we‚ at the same time‚ gain a longue durée perspective on societal transformations and give a truthful account of the ways our different interlocutors describe, name, and understand the changes they are living and the kinds of future they expect? The authors first situate this question within broader disciplinary debates, focusing particularly on debates in anthropology and its focus on studying history and change through ethnography. Ethnography is a crucial instrument for uncovering and analyzing the relationship between emic and etic perspectives of change, as well as the complex and often contradictory interplay of continuity and change beyond linear periodization and teleological presuppositions. The authors argue for a combination of multiple methods of investigation that borrow from both ethnography and other methods of data collection and analysis, and for an analytical framework that articulates three levels of analysis: the unit of analysis, the empirical data and the metanarratives of change.

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The Life Story and the Study of Resilience and Response to Adversity

Journal of Narrative and Life History ◽

10.1075/jnlh.1.2-3.06lif ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 1 (2-3) ◽

pp. 169-200 ◽

Cited By ~ 43

Author(s):

Bertram J. Cohler

Keyword(s):

Life History ◽

Lived Experience ◽

Life Story ◽

Human Sciences ◽

Personal Integrity ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Good Story ◽

Making Sense ◽

Important Means ◽

Over Time

Abstract The concept of the life story is discussed as an important means for under-standing continuity and change within lives over time, including means used to make sense of lived experience, particularly response to adversity. This per-spective on the study of the life history is based on current approaches to the study of narrative within both the human sciences and the humanities, and views the life history as a story that is continually revised over time, and with age. The life story may be evaluated, both by its teller and by those listening or reading, in the same terms as any good or "followable" story within our own culture (Ricoeur, 1977). Explanation of the origins, impact, and resolu-tion of adversity appears essential both in the "good" story and the life his-tory understood as a personal narrative or story, and is necessary to maintain continuing experience of personal integrity or coherence across the course of life. Some representative accounts of response to adversity are reviewed which are consistent with the life story approach, focusing on means used in making sense and maintaining a life story that is followable both to self and others. (Psychology)

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Continuity and Change in Carbon Market Politics

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197515037.013.42 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Carley Chavara ◽

Christian Elliott ◽

Matthew Hoffmann ◽

Matthew Paterson

Keyword(s):

Climate Change Policy ◽

Carbon Market ◽

Carbon Markets ◽

The European Union ◽

Institutional Dynamics ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Making Sense ◽

Integrative View ◽

Political Economies ◽

Market Linkage

The Paris Agreement institutionalized decentralized and national approaches to climate change policy through Article 4 and the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) process. In this new context, what can be said about the prospects for a global carbon market, and how might that analysis benefit from a comparative political perspective? In this chapter, the authors argue that, given the shift to the NDC process and considering the history of carbon market linkage and diffusion, understanding the past and future of carbon markets requires an analysis of the variation in institutions and the political economies of countries. To illustrate this point, the authors unpack continuity and change in five cases: the European Union, China, Canada, South Korea, and Indonesia. The authors conclude that making sense of carbon markets requires an integrative view of the comparative institutional dynamics as well as the transnational processes of diffusion and learning that promotes policy ideas.

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