The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of "Do What You Love"
The Passion Paradigm: Professional Adherence to and Consequences of the Ideology of "Do What You Love"
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10.1111/socf.12665
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发表时间：
2020-10-31
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1.8
通讯作者：
DePalma, Lindsay J.
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作者：
DePalma, Lindsay J.
如果工作的物质结构的变化让我们进入了“新经济”，那么文化学者认为工作的意识形态结构也一定会发生变化。现有关于不稳定专业人士和情感在 21 世纪工作中的作用的学术研究发现，激情可能是新经济中白领工作的重要文化组成部分。本文利用来自在不太不稳定或较不稳定环境中工作的工程师、护士和平面设计师的数据，提出了工作热情的第一个主位定义，即吸引力、享受、动机和毅力的体验。因为我发现样本中的专业人士具有压倒性的依从性和概念一致性，所以我认为对工作激情的追求构成了一种连贯的工作意识形态，我称之为激情范式。我认为，激情范式与新经济中的工作结构兼容并保护它，因为它的超个人主义逻辑激励工人努力工作并把工作做好，作为一种自我保健的实践，将批评的焦点远离制度，更多地转向自我。对激情范式的坚持和制度化可能会产生多种后果，为未来的研究开辟广阔的领域。
If changes to the material structures of work have ushered us into a "new economy," cultural scholars assume that there must also be changes to ideological structures of work. Extant scholarship on precarious professionals and on the role of emotions in 21(st)-century work find that passion may be an important cultural component of white-collar work in the new economy. Using data from engineers, nurses, and graphic designers who work in either less precarious or more precarious contexts, this paper contributes the first emic definition of work passion as the experiences of attraction, enjoyment, motivation, and perseverance. Because I find overwhelming adherence and conceptual consistency among professionals in my sample, I argue that the pursuit of work passion constitutes a coherent ideology of work, which I call the passion paradigm. I argue that the passion paradigm is compatible with and protects structures of work in the new economy because its logic of hyper individualism motivates workers to work hard and work well as a practice of self-care, shifting the locus of critique further away from institutions and more toward the self. Adherence to and institutionalization of the passion paradigm may have myriad consequences, opening up broad areas of future research.