The cultural logic of precariousness and the marginalization of the sociological imagination: Signs from Mexican self‐help books

McLean, Scott

doi:10.1111/cars.12371

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“…Scholars who study therapeutic culture stress the individualism at work in self-help beliefs and approaches that can be both empowering and occlude larger structural inequalities and precarious economic systems (Illouz 2008;Klein and Mills 2017;McLean 2022;Pagis 2021;Rimke 2020;Sheehan 2021). Existing divorce rituals surrounding the ending of long-term partnerships are deeply shaped by core tenets at work in therapeutic culture: the belief that individuals can work to transform, change, or find an authentic self through challenging emotion work.…”

Section: Endings and Dominance Of The Therapeuticmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another significant tenet at work in therapeutic culture is the belief that one should turn to experts for guidance and advice on how to approach challenging life issues. These therapeutic ideals and approaches bear down in cultural settings where neoliberal ideas abound and where, despite ones' social location and access to resources and specific self-help practices, individuals feel the responsibility to improve and be happy (McLean 2022;Pagis 2021).…”

Section: Endings and Dominance Of The Therapeuticmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Walking Pilgrimage as Ritual for Ending Partnerships

Jenkins

2023

Religions

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Scholarship in pilgrimage studies suggests that people use travel to sacred sites to mark life transitions such as moving into adulthood, retirement, the death of a loved one, or the ending of an intimate relationship. This research has also illustrated how walking pilgrimage can provide physical and symbolic structures for individual therapeutic and spiritual practice. However, pilgrimage scholars have not put the experience of ending long-term partnerships at the center of analysis, and family scholars have yet to explore how people might use extended walking pilgrimage as ritual when relationships end. Recent scholarship in pilgrimage studies has called for a more dynamic and inclusive approach that highlights the multiple and varied social forces at work in travel to and around sacred spaces. I draw from existing empirical studies, recent theory in pilgrimage studies, the literature addressing divorce rituals, and my qualitative document analysis of published narratives of extended walking after ending long-term partnerships to identify important sociological questions, methods, and perspectives for future research.

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