This paper examines how separate behavioral science disciplines can be brought together
to more fully understand the dynamics of contemporary careers. We adopt one …

Work is integral to human functioning, and all psychologists need to understand the role of
work in people's lives. Understanding factors influencing work choices and helping …

Before discussing how to innovate the study of career development using insights from life-
span psychology and life course sociology, researchers might benefit from reconsidering …

This cross-disciplinary text is designed to appeal to a diversity of social science scholars.
The central focus is on new ways of viewing the career, or how working lives unfold over …

How individuals can be employable and make successful career transitions throughout their
working life is gaining increased attention from scholars in the field of vocational and …

While psychologists say that “people make careers,” sociologists claim that “careers make
people” and the career literature shows a dearth of cross-referencing between these two …

In this chapter, I describe advances as well as problems that interfere with advances in
career development theories. To provide a context for this approach, I first discuss the need …

The authors present the psychology‐of‐working perspective (DL Blustein, 2006; N. Peterson
& RC González, 2005; MS Richardson, 1993) as an alternative to traditional career …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to call for an integrative approach to career research
aiming to avoid both fragmentation and closure of the field through the discussion of a wide …

A number of trends or shifts in direction—some relatively subtle, others more dramatic—
have been occurring in theory and research on career development over the past several …