Arbeit und Biographie

Brose, Hanns-Georg; Wohlrab-Sahr, Monika

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“…These standards are formed by both institutional and regulatory patterns as well as by biographically tested orientations that have been crystallized during the elaboration of previous biographical experiences. Brose and Wohlrab-Sahr (2018: 487) distinguish these two levels, talking on the one hand about ‘life-course’ and on the other about ‘biography’. The ‘life-course’ includes all the events of life and constitutes the ‘external form’ of a life history, as it includes the sequence of placements within institutional fields.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Reconstructive Biographical Research In ...mentioning

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“…The ‘life-course’ includes all the events of life and constitutes the ‘external form’ of a life history, as it includes the sequence of placements within institutional fields. On the other hand, ‘biography’, which is the ‘inner side’ of the ‘external structure’, includes the internalized orientation schemes and emergent informal rules of life formation (Brose and Wohlrab-Sahr, 2018: 487). Although biography draws on socially and institutionally available standards, it is always constructed through the individual endeavors of the actors.…”

Section: The Contribution Of Reconstructive Biographical Research In ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, both biographical reflection and ‘biographical work’ are functional components of the way of life and contribute to shaping the life course. As Brose and Wohlrab-Sahr (2018: 487) point out, the way in which people experience particular events, changes, or upheavals in their lives is biographically framed as it comes to be integrated into a history, not only by selectively connecting with past events but also by creating future perspectives. However, the way in which individuals produce biographical constructions and form biographical identities through them draws on a variety of discourses and social typifications as well as collective memories.…”

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Exploring biographies in a rapidly changing labor world

Tsiolis

Siouti

2022

Current Sociology

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The field of work and employment is among the most rapidly changing fields in current societies. The sociology of work attempts to map these changes, developing concepts that seek to grasp the transformations of labor. Currently, the discussion revolves around two main topics: (a) the ‘normality of non-normality’ expands on the flexible, insecure, and precarious forms of employment, while (b) the ‘subjectivation of work’ has been introduced in order to reflect the newly observed trend in which entrepreneurial strategies and rationales colonize the whole spectrum of an employee’s personal life and the self. It is a paradox, however, that while all these transformations in the labor world are taking place, interest in biographical research on the field has declined. This article aims to show the ways in which biographical narrative research has studied the changes that have taken place in the world of labor and to highlight new research possibilities. We especially wish to highlight ways in which reconstructive biographical research can contribute to the corpus of knowledge generated on this topic. We argue that, through biographical case reconstruction, paths by which transformations of the labor world become biographically significant for individuals and their social life worlds can be grasped in a dialectical manner. Employing systematic reconstruction of the ways in which social actors construct their work experiences biographically can serve a twofold purpose. First, it reveals how social rules, dominant discourses, and social conditions form new workers’ subjectivities, and second, it identifies biographical sources of resistance on the part of the actors.

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Section: The Contribution Of Reconstructive Biographical Research In ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Contribution Of Reconstructive Biographical Research In ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Contribution Of Reconstructive Biographical Research In ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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