Abstract
A girl was introduced to another guest by the hostess: ‘This is Jane who works in social welfare.’ Jane immediately denied the relevance of this piece of information: ‘Oh don’t say that! It’s not important what I do but who I am. … I’m me, that’s what matters.’ Other guest: ‘Yes, ofcourse, hullo Jane.’ There follows a series of grunts, giggles, coughs, visual searches for diverting third parties, and silence. Then, Jane: ‘And what do you do?’1
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes and References
Marylin Williams, ‘Presenting Oneself in Talk: the Disclosure of Occupation’, in R. Harre (ed.), Life Sentences (Wiley, Chichester, 1976).
R. D. Laing, Self and Others (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1971), pp. 81–2.
Ibid., pp. 101–2.
Stephen Pile, The Book of Heroic Failures (Macdonald Futura, London, 1980), p. 20.
E. Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method (Collier Macmillan, West Drayton, 1964), p. 1.
J. P. Sartre, Being and Nothingness (Methuen, London, 1957), p. 59.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (Faber and Faber, London, 1967), pp. 11, 16, 28 respectively.
For example, in Noam Chomsky, Language and Mind (Harcourt Brace and World, New York, 1968), p. 10.
Copyright information
© 1985 Glenn Langford
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Langford, G. (1985). Teachers as Occupying Roles. In: Education, Persons and Society. Modern Introductions to Philosophy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17860-5_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17860-5_5
Publisher Name: Palgrave, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-34327-2
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-17860-5
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)