'Shameful work': A psychosocial approach to father-son relations, young male unemployment and femininity in an ex-steel community
'Shameful work': A psychosocial approach to father-son relations, young male unemployment and femininity in an ex-steel community
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“可耻的工作”：在前钢铁社区中处理父子关系、年轻男性失业和女性气质的社会心理方法
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10.1057/pcs.2011.14
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2011
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Jimenez L
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Jimenez L
运用社会心理学的方法，本文探讨了年轻失业男性对工作的抵制，他们称之为“尴尬”和“女性化”。故事的背景是南威尔士山谷一个小镇的钢铁厂关闭，他们的抵抗是由父子关系调解的，父子关系决定了什么是适当的男子汉工作。在这项研究中，年轻男子，以及他们的母亲和（在可能的情况下）他们的父亲，进行了采访。访谈揭示了一个遭受代际创伤影响的社区，并因对男性和女性的复杂感情而分裂。这些感受投射到年轻男子身上，他们感到受到家人、同龄人和社区其他人的欺凌和羞辱，因为他们无法找到适合性别的工作。我们考虑了这些发现对理解青年男性失业的影响。
Using a psychosocial approach, this paper explores young unemployed men's resistance to work they describe as ‘embarrassing’ and ‘feminine’. The context is the closure of a steelworks in a town in the South Wales valleys, in which their resistance is mediated by father–son relationships that dictate what counts as proper manly work. In this study, young men, as well as their mothers and (where possible) their fathers, were interviewed. The interviews reveal a community suffering the effects of intergenerational trauma and riven with complex feelings about masculinity and femininity. These feelings are projected onto the young men, who feel bullied and shamed by their families, peers and others in the community because they are unable to find gender-appropriate work. The implications of these findings for understandings of youth male unemployment are considered.