Occupations through the Looking Glass: Reflecting on Occupational Scientists' Ontological Assumptions

Occupational Science: Society, Inclusion, Participation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 54-66

  Hocking, Clare ^a  

^a AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Contrasting individualism with collectivism, failing to discover complex causations; Differences, the way men and women experience a healthy workplace; Ellis and gender bias, 'a preference or prejudice... other'; Ideological and structural issues, on power relations in society; Notion of equal rights, underpinning definitions of individualism; Occupational science, and biases; Occupational scientists, to embrace occupation in all its rich, situated, messy complexity; Occupations through the looking glass, ontological assumptions; Ontologicl standpoints, as gendered, socio cultural, socio economic constructions; Reflections of occupational scientists and therapists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873370384     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118281581.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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