Work, narrative identity and social affiliation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2373670
AutoresKate Foster (0000-0003-4573-8212, Saint Mary's University, autor de correspondencia), Karen Foster (Saint Mary's University)
Año2012
Volumen26
Número6
Páginas935-950
Fecha de publicación2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaWork Employment and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0950017012458024
OpenAlexW2129121492
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas30

Sociologists of work have been drawn into a conversation over work's significance as a source of identity and social affiliation - 'needs' which, according to late modern theorists, are increasingly fulfilled in multiple other realms. This article enters this exchange by foregrounding the epistemological puzzle of how we can 'know' identity and social affiliation in narratives. As a provisional solution, Jenkins's concepts of identification and categorization are brought into contact with Marks and Thompson's emphasis on interests and identities and operationalized through Somers's concepts of narrative identity, emplotment and categorization in an analysis of qualitative interviews with 52 working people and former workers in Canada

Aesthetics · Categorization · Conversation · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Identification (biology · Identity (music · Linguistics · Narrative · Operationalization · Social group · Social identity approach · Social identity theory · Sociology · Communication · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Gender Studies · Management and Organizational Studies · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology