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Which is more suitable for what, lol? What’s your end goal, other than discussing the subjects in a thread; you appear to be putting the cart before the horse, so-to-speak, in terms of relevance or applicability.
I asked him that, and his answer (post#10) was
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I guess my endgame is I want to be a world leading expert of these professions.
As if that will happen with a single PhD, what with the three being so disparate!
And he isn't even IN one of those fields...
I guess my endgame is I want to be a world leading expert of these professions.
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Originally Posted by Pitt Chick
As if that will happen with a single PhD, what with the three being so disparate!
And he isn't even IN one of those fields...
Thanks, lol. I noticed he/she used the word profession interchangeably with a course of study/subject; he/she might want to understand the distinction prior to embarking on a path to becoming a professional in any single field (yet alone all of them, heh).
What is it you really want to do? You don't want to do those jobs, but it almost sounds like you want to write papers/books about the people who do those jobs. Perhaps some branch of psychology like industrial psychology that studies why people work in the careers they are in??
I suspect the OP is quite young (high school would make most sense if they are asking about how to start a college career) and doesn't realize how academia works.
On the other hand, I do know a number of academics, besides myself, with disparate specialties that fall under a broad umbrella not unlike this. Just because an academic has special interests doesn't mean that they don't address other topics. The OP might, for example, study the psychology of work, for example, and write extensively about and teach courses on monks/nuns, nurses, and mathematicians while also teaching classes like Intro to Psychology, Industrial Psychology, and Psychological Statistics.
Well because that would limit me to only one of the professions that I'm interested in (plus I don't have what it takes to be a nurse or a mathematician).
Then you’re unlikely to have what it takes to successfully pursue a PhD.
As if that will happen with a single PhD, what with the three being so disparate!
And he isn't even IN one of those fields...
I don't feed people who go on moralistic power trips, little less those who don't understand what I'm saying (posting) because they have preconceived moralistic ideas (perhaps wilfully so).
As I said, I'm interested in their professional experiences and motivations....and what people who practice these professions tend to have in common in terms of their psychological characteristics and background.
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Originally Posted by tnff
What is it you really want to do? You don't want to do those jobs, but it almost sounds like you want to write papers/books about the people who do those jobs. Perhaps some branch of psychology like industrial psychology that studies why people work in the careers they are in??
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Originally Posted by Archaic
I suspect the OP is quite young (high school would make most sense if they are asking about how to start a college career) and doesn't realize how academia works.
On the other hand, I do know a number of academics, besides myself, with disparate specialties that fall under a broad umbrella not unlike this. Just because an academic has special interests doesn't mean that they don't address other topics. The OP might, for example, study the psychology of work, for example, and write extensively about and teach courses on monks/nuns, nurses, and mathematicians while also teaching classes like Intro to Psychology, Industrial Psychology, and Psychological Statistics.
Yes, somehow the existence of industrial psychology slipped my mind. We all have lapses every now and then
And now that I've written down exactly what interests me about these topics (in my own post quoted above) it most definitely sounds like psychology would be the right discipline for me considering such terms as 'psychological characteristics', 'motivations', 'professional experiences', and 'personal background'.
Ethnography is defined as 'the in-depth study of a particular cultural group.' If you were to undertake an ethnographic study of any of your three groups of interest, you'd find yourself 'out in the field', embedded with monks in a monastery, nurses in a hospital or clinic, or mathematicians at the Santa Fe Institute or something, hah. I'm no anthropologist but to my knowledge ethnographic studies are more typically done in tribal settings throughout the world. There's a tribe in Kenya whose name escapes me right now who are often subjected to visits from academics. But I think any identifiable subculture, domestic or foreign, is theoretically eligible for ethnographic analysis
He says he is passionate about "nurses". Not the nursing profession. "Nurses".
"Nurses" are not an ethnic group or a culture. It's still a female-dominated profession. This is officially creepy.
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