Resisting the rat race

IF 0.3 4区 社会学 Q4 SOCIOLOGY
M. Sørensen
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Abstract

When people feel they have to run faster and faster just to keep up, it is a personal experience of the acceleration that characterises late modern society. In reaction, some people attempt to escape “the rat race” by aiming to live self-sufficiently in the countryside. This article presents a text analysis of 35 letters from the magazine Ater, where people share their experiences of moving. The analysis focuses on the authors’ motivations for the move, their criticism of mainstream society and their experiences of time, temporality and competing time norms in their new life. Rosa’s concepts of acceleration, alienation and resonance, and Adam’s concept of abstract and standardised clock time, provide the theoretical framework for the analysis. The study concludes that the authors of letters search for resonance and to a large degree they have also found it, especially since the authors experience their work as meaningful and live according to their ideological values. Self-sufficiency is an individual form of coping, but simultaneously choosing to live differently is a practice of constructive resistance to mainstream consumption and work norms.
抵制激烈竞争
当人们觉得他们必须跑得越来越快才能跟上时,这是现代晚期社会特有的加速体验。作为回应,一些人试图通过在农村过自给自足的生活来逃避“激烈的竞争”。本文对《Ater》杂志的35封信进行了文本分析,人们在信中分享了他们的搬家经历。分析的重点是作者搬家的动机,他们对主流社会的批评,以及他们在新生活中对时间、时间性和竞争性时间规范的体验。罗莎的加速、异化和共振概念,以及亚当的抽象和标准化时钟时间概念,为分析提供了理论框架。该研究得出结论,信件的作者寻求共鸣,在很大程度上他们也找到了共鸣,尤其是因为作者认为自己的作品有意义,并按照自己的意识形态价值观生活。自给自足是一种个人的应对方式,但同时选择不同的生活方式是对主流消费和工作规范的建设性抵制。
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