The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of “Do What You Love”

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  2020

• Venue

  Sociological Forum

• Publication date

  2020-10-31

• Fields of study

  Sociology

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  DOI 10.1111/socf.12665
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