Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The biographical management of risk and uncertainty: British veterans
"How individuals deal with risk and uncertainties in the context of an organizational culture is a neglected area in the sociology of risk and uncertainty. This contribution reports from an explorative qualitative study (n=14) which examines the intersection of biographical experiences and organizational culture in the perspective of risk and uncertainty. This study with ex-serviceman of the British Armed Forces Shows that coming from different biographical contexts, young adults become soldiers for different reasons and they experience their time as soldiers differently. Some chose the certainty culture of the military as a life perspective; others see it rather as a stage in their life. It is the group which assimilates most into military culture which has serious problems with the transition into civil life. But these problems seem to be rooted in the way in which soldiers adopt the military certainty culture rather than the transition itself. Soldiers who maintain competing interpretations and biographical projects are less assimilated but better prepared to deal with all kinds of issues such as drinking culture, ethical and life and death issues." (author's abstract)
- Weitere Titel
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Das biografische Management von Risiko und Unsicherheit: britische Veteranen
- ISSN
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0172-6404
- Umfang
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Seite(n): 237-269
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Erschienen in
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Historical Social Research, 36(3)
- Thema
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Psychologie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Sozialpsychologie
Transformation
kulturelle Faktoren
Biographie
Organisationskultur
vergleichende Forschung
Geschäftsführung
Risiko
militärische Intervention
Militär
Karriere
Großbritannien
Identität
Alkoholkonsum
Zukunft
Sicherheit
Zivilgesellschaft
Soldat
Kultur
Lebenslauf
Einstellung
empirisch
empirisch-qualitativ
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Zinn, Jens O.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wo)
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Deutschland
- (wann)
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2011
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-357602
- Rechteinformation
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp
- Zeitschriftenartikel
Beteiligte
- Zinn, Jens O.
Entstanden
- 2011