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
- Opposition pattern
- 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
- Anomie
- 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
- Postmodernist - Bauman
- Influenced by
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