Atkinson Will
School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies, University of Bristol.
Br J Sociol. 2013 Dec;64(4):643-61. doi: 10.1111/1468-4446.12049.
This paper examines the consequences of the recent economic downturn and UK government spending cuts, as exacerbations of prevailing trends in neoliberal employment policy, on temporal perception, specifically as it relates to the adaptation of subjective anticipations of and projections into the future to objective prospects of unemployment by class. Grounded in a phenomenologically-minded Bourdieusian conceptualization of class and time and contextualized by statistics on chances of job loss, it draws on qualitative research with 57 individuals from across the class structure to chart differing dispositions toward the future. In particular, it distinguishes three orientations - the future as controllable, the future as uncontrollable and the future as reasonably controllable - which appear to correspond with resources possessed.
本文探讨了近期经济衰退和英国政府开支削减所带来的后果，这些后果加剧了新自由主义就业政策的流行趋势，对时间感知产生了影响，具体而言，涉及到不同阶层如何将对未来的主观预期和规划与失业的客观前景相适应。本文以布迪厄关于阶层和时间的现象学概念为基础，并结合失业几率的统计数据进行情境化分析，通过对来自不同阶层结构的57个人进行定性研究，描绘出人们对未来的不同倾向。具体而言，本文区分了三种取向——未来是可控的、未来是不可控的以及未来是合理可控的——这些取向似乎与所拥有的资源相对应。
