The Danish state is preoccupied with its citizens’ social skills, which are seen as important for the nations’ competitiveness. Such skills regard self-presentation, communication, emotional control etc. This article relies primarily on interviews with Danish social workers who are involved either in assessing young marginalized welfare clients’ personal readiness for schooling or employment or in preparing them for this through social skills training. Secondarily, it relies on fieldwork data from young Danes at the margins of the educational system and/or the labour market, who are frequently confronted with a devaluation of their personal ways of being. As personal resources related to ways of being, communicating, handling emotions etc. are ascribed social value, especially at the labour market they may work as a form of capital, while the lack of them may be a source of marginalization. These findings are discussed as signs of more general social normative demands, theoretically grasped in the meeting point of Bourdieu’s understanding of embodied cultural capital, of Skeggs’ analysis of how subjects are attributed value or not, and of Illouz’s investigation of the emotional demands contemporary capitalism puts on employees. Understanding the experiences of those who fail to comply with implicit social requirements for personal resources thus shed light on contemporary requirements regarding how to behave and communicate with other people as well as on the state’s investments in the most personal spheres of its citizens.

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缺乏社交技能：社会投资国家对边缘化公民的生活方式的关注

丹麦政府全神贯注于其公民的社交技能，这被视为对国家竞争力很重要。这些技能包括自我展示、沟通、情绪控制等。 本文主要依赖于对丹麦社会工作者的采访，他们参与评估年轻边缘化福利客户的个人上学或就业准备情况，或通过社交技能培训为他们做好准备. 其次，它依赖于来自教育系统和/或劳动力市场边缘的年轻丹麦人的实地调查数据，他们经常面临个人生活方式的贬值。由于与存在方式、沟通方式、处理情绪等相关的个人资源被赋予社会价值，特别是在劳动力市场上，它们可能作为一种资本运作，而缺乏他们可能是边缘化的根源。这些发现被讨论为更普遍的社会规范要求的迹象，在理论上掌握在布尔迪厄对具身文化资本的理解、斯凯格斯对主体如何被赋予价值的分析以及伊洛兹对当代资本主义的情感需求的调查的交汇点。穿上员工。了解那些未能遵守对个人资源的隐含社会要求的人的经历，从而阐明了当代关于如何与他人交往和交流的要求，以及国家对其公民最个人领域的投资。从理论上掌握了布尔迪厄对具身文化资本的理解、斯凯格斯对主体如何被赋予价值的分析以及伊洛兹对当代资本主义对员工的情感需求的调查的交汇点。了解那些未能遵守对个人资源的隐含社会要求的人的经历，从而阐明了当代关于如何与他人交往和交流的要求，以及国家对其公民最个人领域的投资。从理论上掌握了布尔迪厄对具身文化资本的理解、斯凯格斯对主体如何被赋予价值的分析以及伊洛兹对当代资本主义对员工的情感需求的调查的交汇点。了解那些未能遵守对个人资源的隐含社会要求的人的经历，从而阐明了当代关于如何与他人交往和交流的要求，以及国家对其公民最个人领域的投资。