“If the shoe ain’t your size, it ain’t gonna fit”: Ideologies of Professional and Marital Instability among US White-Collar Workers
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Most scholars in the humanities and social sciences are comfortable, or at least familiar, with a certain degree of uncertainty in their work. Our subject matter rarely lends itself to tidy, verifiable conclusions; instead, particularly in the wake of postmodern critiques, our scholarly works almost always include a nod to the unknown, the yet to be studied, the likelihood that the passage of time will bring complication, revision, and, occasionally, retraction. This is perhaps doubly true for ethnographers, whose scholarship is based on participant-observation, openended interviews, and the analysis thereof, and lies somewhere along the blurry border between the humanities and social sciences. As Clifford Geertz has said:
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