Identity Work and Meaning Arena
| Autor: | Ann Westenholz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Cultural Studies
Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Identity (social science) Identitet Education Argument 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Sociology Social science Social constructivism media_common Arbejdsliv Field (Bourdieu) 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Postmodernism 0506 political science Epistemology Negotiation Informationsteknologi-sociologi 050203 business & management Meaning (linguistics) Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | American Behavioral Scientist. 49:1015-1029 |
| ISSN: | 1552-3381 0002-7642 |
| Popis: | A dominant sociological argument asserts that changes in working life and society in general have affected our identities, with the result of increased individualization and the decline of the “organizational man.” The author is critical of this epochalist claim and argues that it is important to design an approach to analyzing the identities and telling the stories of the current transformation of work and identities that recognizes the processes within working life. This proposal goes beyond a grand-scale epochalist claim about the consequences of the transformation to a postmodern area of identity. As an alternative, the author suggests an analysis of identities, drawing on a relational and social constructivist paradigm. She examines how workers employ elements from widespread identity stories as “raw material” when negotiating emerging identities. Drawing on a qualitative study within the information technology field, the author illustrates what such an analysis of emerging identities might look like. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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