Ricerca per che cosa? Il discorso europeo sul restructuring e la ricerca sociale

Journal title SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO
Author/s Bruno Cattero
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2009/114
Language Italian Pages 16 P. 80-95 File size 94 KB
DOI 10.3280/SL2009-114007
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Research, for what? The European discourse on restructuring and the social research - The article examines the discourse relating to restructuring, as developed by the European Commission since the end of the 1990s, and discusses the implications of the various activities initiated or financed at the European level for social research in this field. The community discourse is characterised by a discursive strategy reversing the negative perceptions linked to restructuring by constructing a generic concept, which ultimately leads to a cognitive framework based on the "naturalisation" of economic change and competitiveness. Given this context for social research, the use of empirical methods has to be accompanied by a constant exercise of deconstruction in order to break up the "cognitive cage" which the actors are confined to.

Key words: concepts, deconstruction, discourse, Europe, research, restructuring

Bruno Cattero, Ricerca per che cosa? Il discorso europeo sul restructuring e la ricerca sociale in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 114/2009, pp 80-95, DOI: 10.3280/SL2009-114007