Narrating Unemployment
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Author_Douglas Ezzy
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Complex Romances
Concurrent Passages
employment transitions
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Good Life
Integrative Passages
Ironic Tragedies
job
Job Loss
Job Loss Event
Job Loss Narratives
Longer Term Life Plan
loss
mental health impact
narrative analysis
narrative approaches to job loss
Non-work Roles
Oppressive Work Environment
Person's Narrative Identity
Person's Self-evaluation
Person’s Narrative Identity
Person’s Self-evaluation
psychosocial adaptation
qualitative sociology
Quantity Surveyor
Self-evaluative Consequences
social identity theory
Strong Romance
Symbolic Interactionist Analysis
tragic
Tragic Job Loss
Tragic Job Loss Narratives
Tragic Narratives
Vince's Narrative
Vince’s Narrative
Vitamin Model
Warr's Vitamin Model
Warr’s Vitamin Model
Weak Romances
Product details
- ISBN 9780754615286
- Weight: 490g
- Dimensions: 153 x 219mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on the emerging field of narrative theory in sociology and psychology, this book argues that an individual’s response to job loss is a product of the shape of the story a person tells about their experience. This, in turn, is a product of both individual creativity and the structuring effects of their social location. Based on a qualitative study of the experience of unemployment in Australia, three main types of job loss narratives are identified. First, romantic narratives describe job loss as a positive experience of liberation from an oppressive job, leading to a gradually improving future. Second, tragic narratives describe job loss as undermining a person’s life plan, leading to a phase of depression, anxiety and self-deprecation. Finally, job loss narratives may be complicated by marital breakdown or serious illness. The book breaks new ground in its use of narrative theory to account for the variations in responses to unemployment.
Douglas Ezzy PhD, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia. Teaches sociology in the school of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Tasmania.
