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- Title
- Homeless careers: pathways in and out of homelessness
- Author(s)
- MacKenzie, David; Chamberlain, Chris
- Abstract
- The central argument of this report is that homelessness should be conceptualised as a 'career process'. Social scientists use the term 'career' to refer to the transitional stages involved in the development of any form of biographical identity (Goffman 1961; Becker 1963; Snow and Anderson 1993; Hutson and Liddiard 1994). The notion of a 'homeless career' draws attention to the process of becoming homeless as people pass through various phases before they develop a self-identity as a homeless person. The homeless career also highlights the factors that influence how people move from one stage of homelessness to another.
- Publication type
- Report
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Institute for Social Research
- Publication year
- 2003
- Publisher
- Swinburne University of Technology/RMIT University
- ISSN
- 097508500X
- Publisher URL
- http://www.salvationarmy.org.au/reports/
- Copyright
- Copyright © by David MacKenzie and Chris Chamberlain, 2003. The published version is reproduced with the kind permission of David MacKenzie.
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