Vad en bruksortskommuns sociologik kan säga oss om det aktiva samhället

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ID21866871
AuthorsJon Sunnerfjell (0000-0002-7066-895X, Göteborgs Stads, corresponding author)
Year2024
Issue17
Pages41-57
Publication date2024-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArkiv Tidskrift för samhällsanalys (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2000-6217 • E-ISSN: 2000-6225
PublisherArkiv Forlag & Tidskrift (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.13068/2000-6217.17.2
OpenAlexW4399862550
LanguageEN
References cited9

[What the sociologic of an industrial community can tell us about the active society] In his essay, Jon Sunnerfjell explores the dynamics of the so-called active society, characterized by the withdrawal of the welfare state and the displacement of structural conflicts from the state to the local level, based on a larger ethnographic study of an industrial municipality’s action programme for the unemployed. The article highlights the contradiction between the market logic that impregnates the active society’s policy orientation and which expresses itself in a strong mobility imperative and in normative ideals of employability and entrepreneurship, and a type of social rationality that is understood in the essay in terms of the sociologic of the industrial spirit of community. The latter illustrates a type of subjectivity that was formed in traditional industrial communities, and which, by valuing loyalty, community and manual labour, stands in stark contrast to the active society’s imperatives of self-realization in an increasingly abstract labour market. Publication history: Published original. (Published 20 June 2024) Citation: Sunnerfjell, Jon (2024) “Vad en bruksortskommuns sociologik kan säga oss om det aktiva samhället”, in Arkiv. Tidskrift för samhällsanalys , issue 17, pp. 41–57. https://doi.org/10.13068/2000-6217.17.2

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