work identities Flashcards

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social class identity through work

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it is an important factor when determining social class identity

Gini - what we do is what we’ll become

work helps us to produce our identity, pay, pensions, working conditions all create a person’s status and lifestyle

Marxism - Bourdieu - social class is partly shaped by work as it can influence identity and leisure - different levels of cultural capital lead to popular and high cultures being enjoyed by different social classes

social identity and status in society is based on work

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identity through work evaluation

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PM - society no longer based on production, but instead consumption, rise in consumer society, consuming goods more important, work is just a means to an end that we invest into a lifestyle to gain identity

Bauman - when work ceases to be central axis of identity - new focus on identity created through consumption of goods and lifestyle choices

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work security and upskilling

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Doherty - work is not as insecure as suggested ‘work matters’ in identity - part time and full time employment has risen

rather than the idea of deskilling at work whereby work is downgrading and therefore identity is found in other things - upskilling where qualifications needed has increased

Doherty - job satisfaction was gained through work and acted as key source of social identity

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work security and upskilling evaluation

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work is insecure - postmodernism - portfolio workers - quitting jobs quickly

increased technology has led to deskilling - chatGPT - we look to other factors to create identity such as gender, ethnicity and consumption

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work, status and leisure

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social identity and status in society is based on work

Parker - work influences identities established through leisure choices
1. opposition 2. neutrality 3. extension

work provides us with self esteem and personal identity - Riach and Loretto

lack of work - identity - unemployment / redundancy have opposite effects on identity as work
Durkheim - leads to anomie

Gini - a lack of work rips away one of the anchors of adult life
Riach and Loretto - work provides self-esteem - leads to crisis - people try to maintain working identity to resist stigmatised label (Goffman)
Riach and Loretto - work is significant as for people out of work - dont want job with less skills (devaluing)

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work, status and leisure evaluation

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identity found in other parts - gender, ethnicity

radical feminism - women work part-time and therefore is not important source of identity

Scraton and Bramham - Parker’s notion of work as being paid is too narrow and ignores other forms of unpaid work eg housework and childcare

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