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Holding up the Aegis: On the Construction of Social Roles by Polish IT-professionals and the Change in Agency

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2011
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dc.abstract.plThis paper takes up the self-construction of the social roles of Polish IT professionals. We conducted an ethnographic study and observed that many of our interviewees defined their roles by negation and by invoking the internal and often hermetic aspects of their profession. Labeling this practice “holding up the shield,” we trace its archetypical roots. The recurrent use of this practice makes a change in agency in the process of constructing the role possible, to the benefit of the IT professionals.
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Warsaw, Poland and Linnaeus University, Sweden
dc.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Warsaw
dc.contributor.authorMonika Kostera
dc.contributor.authorAgnieszka Postuła
dc.date.accessioned2025-07-25T16:44:17Z
dc.date.available2025-07-25T16:44:17Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.published2011
dc.description.issue1-2
dc.description.physical83-92
dc.description.volume9
dc.identifier.issn1532-5555
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.kozminski.edu.pl/handle/item/2929
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofTamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry
dc.relation.pages83-92
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0
dc.subjectit-professionals
dc.subjectarchetypes
dc.subjectsocial roles
dc.subjectchange in agency
dc.subjectprofession
dc.subjectethnography
dc.subtypeOriginal
dc.title

Holding up the Aegis: On the Construction of Social Roles by Polish IT-professionals and the Change in Agency

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