Empirische Selbst-Positionierungsweisen angelernter Arbeiter

Exploring biographies in a rapidly changing labor world

“…This research also utilizes biographical narratives, which in this context are understood as a mode of identitarian positioning, and their analytical elaboration can highlight which discursive statements can be more relevant to subjectivation than others. As Bosančić (2014) argues, the knowledge-sociological discourse analysis aims to work out by means of self-narratives to what extent discursively constituted subject-positions and motive vocabularies play a role in identity positioning. In other words, it seeks to establish how these are referred to and what transformations take place in the appropriation processes (Bosančić, 2014: 196).…”

“…As Bosančić (2014) argues, the knowledge-sociological discourse analysis aims to work out by means of self-narratives to what extent discursively constituted subject-positions and motive vocabularies play a role in identity positioning. In other words, it seeks to establish how these are referred to and what transformations take place in the appropriation processes (Bosančić, 2014: 196). The analysis of biographical narratives can, according to this approach, gain no access either to the lived life history (the stratified stock of biographical experiences) or to processes of ‘biographical work’ 10 of biographical experiences.…”

“…Bosančić’s (2014) study on the modes of subjectivation of unskilled workers is an excellent example of such an approach. His research showed that subjectivation does not take place through a passive adaptation and internalization of the elements of hegemonic discourse.…”

“…His research showed that subjectivation does not take place through a passive adaptation and internalization of the elements of hegemonic discourse. It is much more a process of active and productive subjectivation, since the formation of the subject is done through an active appropriation of role models, identity forms, and patterns ('subject-positions') which are embraced, rejected, or transformed (Bosančić, 2014). Bosančić comes to an interesting conclusion: that subjectivation is not a reflection of the structural, institutional logics and claims to which subjects are passively adapted but involves a creative dimension on the part of the employees themselves.…”

Grenzjustierungen - Bildungsbiografien Zugewanderter zwischen Qualifikation und Re-Qualifizierung

“…Spies 2019; Spies/Tuider 2017). AuchBosančić (2014) nennt in seiner Arbeit zu ›unqualifizierten Arbeitern‹ identitäts-und narrationsbezogene Perspektiven von Selbsterzählungen, die dieser Forschungsrichtung nahestehen (vgl. bspw Somers 1994)…”