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Inhabiting the Self-Work Romantic Utopia: Positive Psychology, Life Coaching, and the Challenge of Self-Fulfillment at Work
Work and Occupations ( IF 2.410 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-22 , DOI: 10.1177/0730888420911683
Michal Pagis 1
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Much has been said about the rise of work as a central identity marker in modern society. With the recent popularization of self-help and positive psychology, this identity marker broadened its signification to include new emotional needs such as love and passion, creating a new cultural imaginary: the “self-work romantic utopia.” Sociological studies have criticized this utopia as a myth that serves capitalist neoliberal structures, leading to frustration and self-blame. However, little is known about how workers themselves confront this myth and the strategies they employ when attempting to inhabit it in today’s precarious job market. Based on 60 in-depth interviews with upper-middle class Israeli workers who hired life coaches to improve their work experience, the author identifies five strategies used to inhabit this romantic utopia: starting over, healing, idealization, polygamy, and vision. Through the analysis of these strategies, the author illustrates how even the relatively privileged workers need to adapt the self-work romantic utopia to their life circumstances, inhabiting the myth in partial degrees. Such flexible implementation turns the “myth” into a cultural tool that directs workers’ lives and actions even in a precarious, unstable job market, maintaining subjective experiences of agency in a sphere characterized by growing structural constraints. Yet paradoxically, these strategies eventually strengthen the precarious, noncommitted, and individual-oriented structure of the job market, yielding flexible, individualistic solutions that replace workplace responsibility.

中文翻译:

居住在自我工作的浪漫乌托邦:积极心理学、生活指导和工作中自我实现的挑战

关于工作作为现代社会的核心身份标志的兴起,已经有很多说法。随着最近自助和积极心理学的普及,这种身份标记扩大了其含义,包括了爱和激情等新的情感需求,创造了一种新的文化想象:“自我工作的浪漫乌托邦”。社会学研究批评这种乌托邦是为资本主义新自由主义结构服务的神话,导致沮丧和自责。然而,人们对工人自己如何面对这个神话以及他们在今天不稳定的就业市场中试图适应它时所采用的策略知之甚少。基于对雇佣生活教练来改善工作体验的以色列中上阶层工人的 60 次深度访谈,作者确定了五种用于居住在这个浪漫乌托邦的策略:重新开始、治愈、理想化、一夫多妻制和愿景。作者通过对这些策略的分析,说明即使是相对享有特权的工人也需要使自我工作的浪漫乌托邦适应他们的生活环境,部分程度地融入神话。这种灵活的实施将“神话”变成了一种文化工具,即使在不稳定、不稳定的就业市场中,它也能指导工人的生活和行动,在结构性约束日益增强的领域中保持主观能动性体验。然而矛盾的是,这些策略最终强化了就业市场不稳定、无承诺和以个人为导向的结构,产生了取代工作场所责任的灵活、个人主义的解决方案。作者说明了即使是相对享有特权的工人也需要使自我工作的浪漫乌托邦适应他们的生活环境,在部分程度上融入神话。这种灵活的实施将“神话”变成了一种文化工具,即使在不稳定、不稳定的就业市场中,它也能指导工人的生活和行动,在结构性约束日益增强的领域中保持主观能动性体验。然而矛盾的是,这些策略最终强化了就业市场不稳定、无承诺和以个人为导向的结构,产生了取代工作场所责任的灵活、个人主义的解决方案。作者说明了即使是相对享有特权的工人也需要使自我工作的浪漫乌托邦适应他们的生活环境,在部分程度上融入神话。这种灵活的实施将“神话”变成了一种文化工具,即使在不稳定、不稳定的就业市场中,它也能指导工人的生活和行动,在结构性约束日益增强的领域中保持主观能动性体验。然而矛盾的是,这些策略最终强化了就业市场不稳定、无承诺和以个人为导向的结构,产生了取代工作场所责任的灵活、个人主义的解决方案。这种灵活的实施将“神话”变成了一种文化工具,即使在不稳定、不稳定的就业市场中,它也能指导工人的生活和行动,在结构性约束日益增强的领域中保持主观能动性体验。然而矛盾的是,这些策略最终强化了就业市场不稳定、无承诺和以个人为导向的结构,产生了取代工作场所责任的灵活、个人主义的解决方案。这种灵活的实施将“神话”变成了一种文化工具,即使在不稳定、不稳定的就业市场中,它也能指导工人的生活和行动,在结构性约束日益增强的领域中保持主观能动性体验。然而矛盾的是,这些策略最终强化了就业市场不稳定、无承诺和以个人为导向的结构,产生了取代工作场所责任的灵活、个人主义的解决方案。
更新日期:2020-03-22
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