Professional success: changing self-reflection of qualified professionals

  • Victoria V. Semenova Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS), Moscow victoria-sem@yandex.ru
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Semenova V.V. Professional success: changing self-reflection of qualified professionals. Interaction. Interview. Interpretation. 2017. Vol. 9. No. 14. P. 16-30. (in Russ.).

Abstract

The paper discusses the problematics of practices and identification of qualified professionals in times of social transformation and deepening individualization. Sociobiographical approach (Schütze, 2007), that treats social change from the point of “subjectivity” - as change in individual experience and models of behavior - serves as  theoretical frame for such research. The main interest here: the change in job strategies of qualified professionals, which is analyzed through their attitudes to professional career and professional success. The aim of the paper: to describe and discover the new tendencies in subjective “answer” of qualified professionals to objective change in  labor market situation and their ability to form new elements in professional culture.  According to this purpose and basing on comparative data the article analyses changing subjective perception of professional success: as a way of movement; as a goal of movement and as a reflection of the self about successfulness of  his/her own career. Empirically comparative analysis is based on three segments of biographical data about qualified professional’s career: in the first part of the article – comparison of job career of older and younger generations, and in next part – career strategies of IT-professionals as representatives of the developing sector of qualified professional jobs in Russia. (project “Intergenerational social mobility from XXth to XXI century: four generations in Russian history”, RSF, 2014-2016, 2017-2019). The important aspect of discussion here is the contradiction between subjective attitudes and objective demands of modern labour market towards high intellectual services.
Keywords:
labour market, information technology industry, highly professionals, biographical method, professional success, group and individual self-reflection,

Author Biography

Victoria V. Semenova, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FCTAS RAS), Moscow
Doctor of Sciences in Sociology, Professor in Sociology

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