Journeying into Academia via Immersion into Qualitative Research: Professor Shaffir as a Master Guide

• Authors: Efa E. Etoroma
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The choice of a work career is one of the most important events in a person’s life course and typically involves secondary socialization and identification with role models. This paper is concerned with the crucial role of my PhD dissertation supervisor at McMaster University, Dr. Billy Shaffir, in my choice of an academic career. I highlight and celebrate how, through the guidance of Dr. Shaffir, I experienced “immersive socialization” into field research and happily converted from an intended business career to an academic career.  

Keywords

EN

Academia; Immersion; Validity; Research; Shaffir

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Qualitative Sociology Review
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 52-60

Dates

published

2020-04-30

Contributors

author

Efa E. Etoroma

• Concordia University of Edmonton, Canada

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5402-8883

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8077.16.2.05