The urge to work
Normative Ordering in the Narratives of People on Long-Term Sick Leave
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3623194 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Halvor Hanisch (0000-0001-9214-2572, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University, corresponding author), Per Koren Solvang (0000-0002-6494-3417, OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 126-139 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health Sociology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1446-1242 • E-ISSN: 1839-3551 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14461242.2019.1579664 |
| OpenAlex | W2915481887 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 48 |
This study analyses the narratives of people on long-term sick leave due to low back pain. We draw upon the theory of justification - as developed by the French sociologists Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot - to investigate how the informants’ narratives evoke and rely upon three ‘orders of worth’. These are the industrial order concerning being a productive citizen, the domestic order of home and family, and the civic order positioning the citizen in the regulations of the welfare state. In-depth interview interpretations map a strongly normative urge to work. The interviews also demonstrate how this urge in interwoven with social interactions in specific arenas: a troubled home life when not working, ways of keeping in touch with work, and complex negotiations of the possibility of non-work. The different orders of worth do more than point towards their ‘own’ arena: Norms and values of the domestic order, in particular, point toward the need for return to work rather than towards life at home (non-work). We conclude that the narratives deal more with the trouble of sick leave than with the enjoyment of work. Hence, the urge to work is just as much a turn away from non-work
Economics · Narrative · Negotiation · Normative · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Welfare state · Work (physics · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Gender Studies · Law · Musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation · Psychology · Social Psychology · Workplace Health and Well-being
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |