“I want to study Sociology abroad!” : The Moral Career of the Taiwanese Applicants During the Past Five Years(2003-2007)
Date Issued
2008
Date
2008
Author(s)
Ho, Meng-Han
Abstract
This study is based on the author’s depth interviews with fifteen Taiwanese applicants who want to study Sociology abroad. The author also interviews American professors in several universities and observes some lectures in Taiwan to research on the moral career of sociological applicants. There are three sequences of application phases. The first phase is pre-application, which includes the consideration phase and the examination phase. The second phase is the preparation of in-application, which consists of the preliminary choices phase and the supporting documents phase. The third phase is the test of in-application, which are the waiting phase, the confronting phase, and the final choices phase. The author analyses the accounts of applicants and their significant others to explore how the self of applicants changes in the sequences of phases. Besides, the author poses how the significant others interact with applicants and how the framework of which applicants judge self and the significant others transform. Especially for failure in applications, the study focuses on how applicants comfort themselves and how their significant others console them.
Subjects
moral career
self
significant others
failure in applications
accounts
Type
thesis
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