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Ford, Michael Patrick.

Learning the family business: Commercial practice and the historical production of whole persons.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning the family business: Commercial practice and the historical production of whole persons.
Author:	Ford, Michael Patrick.
Description:	338 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Jean C. Lave.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-09, Section: A, page: 3692.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-09A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3331603
ISBN:	9780549836711

Learning the family business: Commercial practice and the historical production of whole persons.
Ford, Michael Patrick.

Learning the family business: Commercial practice and the historical production of whole persons. - 338 p.

Adviser: Jean C. Lave.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2008.

This dissertation is an ethnography of copresence that investigates the changing life of a commercial transportation dealership in Phoenix, AZ by paying close attention to one of the ways it was engaged in reproducing itself---namely, the way I was trained and groomed to takeover the business from my uncle. By using the series of assignments I held as a management trainee as the organizing principle of my analysis, I pursue the idea that beyond identities of mastery a theory of learning should account for the historical production of whole persons. I show how such persons appear in the dealership's space of copresence when the learning process in question reaches a maximum degree of participation. That process appears as a decentering movement immanent in the dealership's everyday activities and mechanisms of control. Unlike the dealership's diverse forms of work, such a movement defies without breaking free of the specific gravity that otherwise determines the field of commercial practice. I find that learning is indeed an integral part of the dealership's changing life. I discuss the implications of such a finding with reference to a number of questions raised in the literature and conclude by suggesting how the notion of whole person and its concomitants might inform future research.

ISBN: 9780549836711Subjects--Topical Terms:

212460
Anthropology, Cultural.

Learning the family business: Commercial practice and the historical production of whole persons.
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