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标题：Bringing "New Science" into Careers Research
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作者：Polly Parker ; Michael B. Arthur
期刊名称：M@n@gement
印刷版ISSN：1286-4892
出版年度：2002
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：D M S P Research Center
摘要：This paper reflects on the first author's attempts to adapt traditional social science meth-ods to her own purpose. The research involved developing a methodology to explore thesubjective career, concerned with people's internal, self-referential views of their unfold-ing career experiences. The paper describes a series of problems encountered alongthe way, stemming directly or indirectly from the rigidity of traditional science assump-tions. In contrast, the authors find encouragement in contemporary ideas about "new sci-ence," and its imagery of a self-organizing, non-linear and interdependent world. Thejourney leads to philosopher Paul Cilliers' principles of complex social systems, whichprovide an alternative, and more affirming, platform for the kind of research undertaken