Goodwin John; O'Connor Henrietta: From young workers to older workers: Eliasian perspectives on the transitions to work and adulthood. In: Belvedere Meridionale, (28) 1. pp. 5-21. (2016)
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Since 2000 we have been undertaking a detailed re-study of Norbert Elias’s lost Adjustment of Young Workers to Work Situations and Adult Roles project from 1962-1964. Our interest in this project began over ten years ago when we rediscovered 850 interview schedules that had, since the late 1960s, simply been left in an attic offi ce. Led by Elias, the project team interviewed nearly 1000 young people in Leicester, UK exploring every aspect of this cohort of young peoples’ lives. What the researchers produced were detailed interview schedules that richly documented the experience of leaving school in the 1960s. From the outset it was clear to us that these interview schedules, left largely unused for over forty years, represented an extraordinary opportunity to both revisit the transitional experiences of these young workers and to retrace some of the original respondents to explore their subsequent lives and careers. As Laub and Sampson (2003: 302) suggest, this data aff orded us a fantastic, if very rare, opportunity to ‘examine within-individual variability over nearly the entire life course’. We have two main aims for this paper. First, we provide an overview of the original 1960s phase of the research and outline Elias’s theory of ‘transition’. In his lost writings on youth, Elias argued that the transition to work requires the young person to become ‘civilized’, learning adult behavioural standards as well as job related skills. Yet inevitably, according to Elias, diffi culties arise in the transition process as the ‘norms’ of working adults diff er considerably to those adults the young people are already familiar with. Second, following on from our re-interviews with a sub-sample of the original 1960s respondents, we examine the extent to which the initial predictions for this group actually came true in terms of their early transitional experiences. Th ese interviews reveal that their work histories did not follow exactly the linear and smooth trajectories predicted for them. Instead, careers were characterised by greater levels of individual complexity, insecurity, multiple ‘transitions’ and ‘critical moments’ that could not be fully explained by family background, social class or education. We conclude by refl ecting on the implications these two for contemporary research on the transition from education to work and by highlighting Elias’s legacy in this area.
| Mű típusa: | Cikk, tanulmány, mű |
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| Rovatcím: | Tanulmányok = Studies; Approaches, snapshots |
| Befoglaló folyóirat/kiadvány címe: | Belvedere Meridionale |
| Dátum: | 2016 |
| Kötet: | 28 |
| Szám: | 1 |
| Oldalak: | pp. 5-21 |
| Nyelv: | angol |
| Kiadó: | Belvedere Meridionale |
| Kiadás helye: | Szeged |
| Befoglaló mű URL: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/37382/ |
| DOI: | 10.14232/belv.2016.1.1 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Elias Norbert, Szociológia - 20. sz. |
| Megjegyzések: | Bibliogr.: p. 20-21. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Szakterület: | 05. Társadalomtudományok 05. Társadalomtudományok > 05.04. Szociológia |
| Feltöltés dátuma: | 2016. okt. 17. 10:36 |
| Utolsó módosítás: | 2025. júl. 02. 09:45 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/35890 |
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