Critical Perspectives on Agency and Social Justice in Transitions and Career Development

TY - JOUR

T1 - Critical Perspectives on Agency and Social Justice in Transitions and Career Development

AU - Thomsen, Rie

AU - Hooley, Tristram

AU - Mariager-Anderson, Kristina

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This editorial introduces the special issue on critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development. While there is a long tradition of using critical theory in career research, there have been limited attempts to view this tradition collectively or consider its impact on, and potential for, shaping career theory. The editorial defines critical theory broadly, moving beyond a narrow focus on theorists around the Frankfurt school and instead embracing writing informed by Marxist theory, poststructuralism, feminism, and other critical traditions which creates a radical imaginary, attends to power, unmasks ideology, understands individuals to be in a dialectical relationship with context and views human beings as having a bounded but transformative agency. The editorial then introduces 13 articles which it groups under the categories of critical psychologies, relational sociologies and postmodern discourse theories.

AB - This editorial introduces the special issue on critical perspectives on agency and social justice in transitions and career development. While there is a long tradition of using critical theory in career research, there have been limited attempts to view this tradition collectively or consider its impact on, and potential for, shaping career theory. The editorial defines critical theory broadly, moving beyond a narrow focus on theorists around the Frankfurt school and instead embracing writing informed by Marxist theory, poststructuralism, feminism, and other critical traditions which creates a radical imaginary, attends to power, unmasks ideology, understands individuals to be in a dialectical relationship with context and views human beings as having a bounded but transformative agency. The editorial then introduces 13 articles which it groups under the categories of critical psychologies, relational sociologies and postmodern discourse theories.

KW - Vejledning

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139400262&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/03069885.2022.2106551

DO - 10.1080/03069885.2022.2106551

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0306-9885

VL - 50

SP - 481

EP - 490

JO - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

JF - British Journal of Guidance and Counselling

IS - 4

ER -