Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity
Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity
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DOI：
10.1177/07308884211028277
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发表时间：
2021-06-30
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2.9
通讯作者：
Ayala-Hurtado, Elena
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作者：
Ayala-Hurtado, Elena
随着世界各地工作条件的变化，就业不稳定性正在增加，包括对那些无法预料这种条件的群体来说。本研究探讨了这样一个群体的成员，教育上的年轻人，描述他们的职业未来的背景下，前所未有的就业不稳定，他们的预期轨迹不再容易实现。通过对西班牙马德里的75名年轻大学毕业生的采访，我发现大多数年轻毕业生都借鉴了一种长期存在的文化叙事，我称之为“成就叙事”，来想象未来的稳定就业。同时，大多数人谴责这种说法是欺诈性的。为了解释这一发现，我借鉴了滞后的概念：依赖于产生它们的过去条件和当前可用机会的信念之间的不匹配。我认为滞后可以延伸到未来的预测中;预测的未来可以由基于过去条件的信念而不是当前的生活经历来指导。此外，我认为，成就叙事本身加强滞后，在未来的预测，由于其共鸣和机构的支持。本文通过分析一个面临意外不稳定性的特权群体的未来预测，为预测未来和就业不稳定性提供了新的见解，进一步发展了滞后的概念，并扩展了文化叙事的研究。
As working conditions change worldwide, employment precarity is increasing, including for groups for whom such conditions are unexpected. This study investigates how members of one such group-educationally advantaged young adults-describe their professional futures in a context of unprecedented employment precarity where their expected trajectories are no longer easily achievable. Using 75 interviews with young university graduates in Madrid, Spain, I find that most young graduates drew on a long-standing cultural narrative, which I call the "achievement narrative," to imagine future stable employment. Simultaneously, most denounced this narrative as fraudulent. To explain this finding, I draw on the concept of hysteresis: the mismatch between beliefs that are dependent on the past conditions that produced them and the available opportunities in the present. I argue that hysteresis can extend into future projections; projected futures can be guided by beliefs based on past conditions more than by lived experiences in the present. Further, I argue that the achievement narrative itself reinforces hysteresis in future projections due to its resonance and institutional support. The paper offers new insights into projected futures and employment precarity by analyzing the future projections of a privileged cohort facing unexpected precarity, further develops the concept of hysteresis, and extends the study of cultural narratives.