Culture and Identity - Work as an Identity

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  • Created on: 02-05-18 11:42
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  • Work as an Identity
    • Influenced by
      • Type of occupation
      • Money earned
        • Affects status and lifestyle
      • Leisure activities
        • Opposition pattern
          • Leisure as a way to escape physically hard and dangerous jobs
        • Neutrality pattern
          • People see their family and leisure as major life interests as their job in unfulfilling and boring
        • Extension pattern
          • Work is so interesting that there is blurring around the distinction between work and leisure time
      • Work-related peer group influences - can influence the identity they choose
        • E.g as a group leader or trade union activist
    • Lack of work
      • Undermines the social identity that work provides
      • Functionalist - Durkheim
        • Anomie
          • Normlessness or a sense of insecurity due to a rapid change e.g redundancy
      • Interactionist - Goffman
        • Unemployed may face stigmatised identity through labelling as 'benefit-seekers'.
    • Decline in work as an identity
      • Postmodernist - Bauman
        • Work is no longer the central axis of identity
        • Consumption goods and lifestyle choices are much more significant sources of identity than work

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