Unemployment, a Social Construction. Institutional Programs, Experiences and Meanings in a Comparative Perspective
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A tradition of sociological research that goes back to the1930s (Lazarsfeld et al., 1932) has constantly pointed outthe diversity of reactions in the face of job deprivation andthe consequent differences in the life stories of the personsconcerned. In this sense, the category of unemployment –which differs from professional activity in that it impliesbeing deprived of that activity, and from professional inactivityin that it implies actively seeking employment – cansustain a variety of interpretations: the people categorizedas unemployed attribute various significations to their ownsituation and adhere to different sorts of identifications (...).