Lógicas de justificación en el sector asociativo: un análisis a partir del discurso de trabajadores de la inserción laboral
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2006
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16-10-2006
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Ariño Villarroya, Antonio
Molpeceres Pastor, María Ángeles
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The aim of this study is to analyse the third sector as a complex social space in which various social demands converge. These demands are produced in a socio-political context characterised by the transformation of the Welfare State and a increasing job precarity in a segmented labour market. Under such circumstances, there's a rising vulnerability among significant layers of the population.
The thesis consider the third sector as an specific space defined by the convergence of different logics of justification. From this perspective, there's a high potential for social critique, as well as a strong tendency towards compromise among the different logics. Therefore, the critical potential may be neutralised under specific conditions. This fact may be seen in the various discourses generated within this sector, which show the ways by which individuals make sense of their actions.
From such suppositions, this work propose an analysis of the discourses, from interviews to professionals of the Social Guarantee Schemes who are employed at associations. The analysis is based on Boltanski and Thévenot´s theoretical model on ‘économies de la grandeur’, which offers an adequate set of tools to study the different logics present in this area. It allows us to contextualise our analysis in the framework of the new ideological configurations emanating from "flexible capitalism", following the path developed by Boltanski and Chiapello in their work on the "third spirit" of capitalism.
The study´s conclusions are divided in two different parts: in the first place, specific works and education discourses are identified as key elements in the general conception of citizenship. In the second place, the the third sector is understood as a potential space for critique but, conversely, as an sphere subject to the necessity of establishing compromises among logics which may neutralise critique. Therefore, it makes possible influencing social policy as well as legitimating the capitalist system in its present condition.