Resocialising the subject? A re-reading of Grey's 'career as a project of the self...'

Journal/Book: Sociology. 1996; 30: Unit 3G, Mountjoy Research Ctr,, Stockton Rd, Durham, Durham, England DH1 3UR. British Sociological Assoc. 137-144.

Abstract: This paper presents a re-reading of the Foucauldian analysis of professional accounting firms given by Grey in his 'Career as a Project of the Self...' (Sociology, 28,2). It argues that Grey's paper provides an exemplar of the 'desocialising' tendencies observed in some Foucauldian analysis and attempts to illustrate this desocialisation through placing Grey's data in an Eliasian rather than a Foucauldian framework.

Note: Article T Newton, Univ London Birkbeck Coll, Dept ORG Psychol, Malet St, London WC1E 7HX, England

Keyword(s): accountants; discourse; history; subjectivity

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