RESOCIALISING THE SUBJECT - A REREADING OF GRAYS CAREER AS A PROJECT OF THE SELF...

Authors
NEWTON T
Citation
T. Newton, RESOCIALISING THE SUBJECT - A REREADING OF GRAYS CAREER AS A PROJECT OF THE SELF..., Sociology, 30(1), 1996, pp. 137-144
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Sociology
Journal title
Sociology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00380385
Volume
30
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
137 - 144
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-0385(1996)30:1<137:RTS-AR>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
This paper presents a re-reading of the Foucauldian analysis of profes sional accounting firms given by Grey in his 'Career as a Project of t he Self...' (Sociology, 28,2). It argues that Grey's paper provides an exemplar of the 'desocialising' tendencies observed in some Foucauldi an analysis and attempts to illustrate this desocialisation through pl acing Grey's data in an Eliasian rather than a Foucauldian framework.