Imagining a better future: Young unemployed people and the polyphonic choir

Pultz, Sabina; Hviid, Pernille

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“…First and foremost, this is due to an awkward absence. For instance, from a search for the years 1995 to 2016 in the most important journal in the field, Culture & Psychology, using the keywords 'culture' and 'work' in all search fields, we retrieved 595 papers, of which only three deal with work-related topics, namely: professional learning (Daniels, 2011), stress (Kirkegaard & Brinkmann, 2015) and youth unemployment (Pultz & Hviid, 2016). We also found some mention of work in Valsiner (2015a), although this analysis is not exactly about work but rather about the emergence of novelty in organizational dynamics.…”

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Work and culture: Approaching cultural and work psychology

Bendassolli

2016

Culture & Psychology

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In this article, we aim to explore the potential consequences of an approach to the theme of work that lies between culture psychology and work psychology. We argue that culture and work, considered as entities, have suffered from a process of mutual distancing over the course of history. Our first argument is to show the fallacy underlying this distancing, by arguing that culture is not an entity, but rather a process by which we use signs as tools to mediate our relationship with the environment and to regulate our own action in irreversible time. We also argue that work is a sign-mediated activity that occurs through culture. Most importantly, we advance the urgency of considering work as a cultural phenomenon, whose specific role is to make culture by getting things transformed into objects. The second argument we put forward is that work is a meaning-making complex. We further develop this concept by claiming that work should be analysed at the general level of the semiotic principles of meaning-making.

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Work and culture: Approaching cultural and work psychology

Bendassolli

2016

Culture & Psychology

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“…The latter set includes a variety of socially segregated framings for human activities: being free-lance artist (of no “job security,” having been dismissed from job (and now “unemployed” or “pensioned,” etc. ; Pultz & Hviid, 2017). Bendassolli and Tateo (2018) emphasize on the meaningfulness of work for people who perform it under societal constraints—including those of organizing the life course (e.g.…”

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“…Unemployment is not a unidirectional trajectory in life course, thanks to imagination that resists the notion of societal roles dominating personal reflexivity. The coverage of meaning transitions over whole life course (Bastos, 2017) and especially the focus on polyphonic imagination about the life course (Klempe, 2017; Pultz & Hviid, 2017) as well as markers of irreversible changes (e.g. the meaning of “ex”—Faccio, Mininni, & Rocelli, 2018).…”

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Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

Valsiner¹

2019

Culture & Psychology

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In this article, I review main directions in innovative ideas that have been presented on the pages of Culture & Psychology over its 25 year history. The field of cultural psychology has become established and gains increasing prominence over the years covered—yet its future depends on careful development of the specific theoretical ideas catalyzed by the use of the hyper-term culture in the different arenas of concrete human psychology. Potential future ideas for cultural psychology include a move from acculturation to proculturation, modulation of psychological distance by signs, building models of dialogical relationships in socially asymmetric role relations, and of the affective textures of everyday living. These are all processes of higher-order complexity that require new ways of conceptualizing methodology in psychology—one that prioritizes theoretically based methods construction over those of consensually established “tool boxes.” Cultural psychology has the advantage over other areas of psychology to consider both the real and not (yet) real human conditions within the same scheme, thus allowing for conceptualization of highest forms of human creativity in ordinary human lives.

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“…Therefore, individuals whose situation is potentially explained in terms of laziness naturally have the possibility of acting and thinking differently, and as a result distancing themselves from this narrative. A Danish study by Pultz and Hviid (2016) implies that unemployed people are perfectly aware of the collective explanation of unemployment in terms of laziness. The participants in the study recount deliberately applying different strategies to distance themselves from this image, even though none of them actually conceive themselves as lazy.…”

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“…To investigate how this "collective imagination" is dealt with on the individual level, a study by Pultz and Hviid (2016), examining how young unemployed Danes make sense and cope with their situation as unemployed, will be included in this section. Moreover, these ways of speaking about one's own and others' effort will be further examined, by looking at the Christian concept of accidia, related to the seven deadly sins (Lindhart 2001), Max Weber's Protestant Work Ethic (Weber 1972(Weber [1920) and the "new work ethic" focusing on self-realisation and the fulfilment of one's hidden potential (Bovbjerg 2003;Brinkmann 2008).…”

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The Conception of Laziness and the Characterisation of Others as Lazy

Madsen

2018

Hu Arenas

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This paper is a theoretical investigation of the common conception of laziness. It starts from constructing a tentative definition of laziness, defining laziness as a negative term referring to people who do not show an effort corresponding to their abilities and/or prerequisites, and/or the difficulty of the task in question. Jerome Bruner's folk psychology is applied to emphasise how the conception of laziness serves as a narrative re-establishing meaning when people do not act as they are expected. Furthermore, two perspectives concerning the characterisation of others as lazy are presented. First, Tversky's and Kahneman's Heuristics and Biases Approach, and second Moscovici's Social Representations Theory. Common for the ways in which the concept of laziness is understood and applied is that the actual motivation, abilities and qualifications of the person being evaluated are hardly never assessed. Thus, the concept of laziness can easily function as a reductionist explanation why others are not acting as expected, with the purpose of making the act of not acting as expected more comprehensible.Keywords Laziness . Cultural psychology . Folk psychology . Information-processing . Social representations theory . Unemployment . School psychology Laziness seems to be a pervasive concept in everyday human social life, used for explaining the behaviour of encountered individuals, or one's own behaviour in a given task or activity. Additionally, laziness is often found in the media and the public debate, attributed to numerous groups and individuals, including unemployed people, students and many more. The concept seems to imply that an individual not acting or performing as expected is not doing so because of causes controllable to herself, often referring to individual effort.In an educational context, Reyna and Weiner (2001) argue that teachers generally have more sympathy for students failing because of uncontrollable factors (low aptitude or external factors), while the opposite goes for students failing because of factors within their own control Human Arenas (2018) 1:288-304 https://doi

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Imagining a better future: Young unemployed people and the polyphonic choir

Cited by 17 publications

References 41 publications

Work and culture: Approaching cultural and work psychology

Work and culture: Approaching cultural and work psychology

Culture & Psychology: 25 Constructive years

The Conception of Laziness and the Characterisation of Others as Lazy

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