«EVERYDAY LIFE ISSUE:CONTRADICTION BETWEEN

WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE»

SERKAN GÜZELPAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY

DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGYDENİZLİ-TURKEY

e-mail: sguzel@pau.edu.tr

MY PRESENTATION CONSIST OF:

1. SUBJECT IN RELATION TO APPROACHES

2. EVERYDAY LIFE DIVIDED INTO TWO SUBCATEGORIES

3. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE

4. WHICH OCCUPATION IS MUCH MORE MODERN THAN OTHER(S)?

SUBJECT IN RELATION TO APPOACHES

MACRO ISSUES AND CONCEPTS

MICRO ISSUES AND CONCEPTS

GRAND THEORY MICRO APPROACHES

MODERNISATION LATER PERIOD OF MODERNISATION

STRUCTURE AND ORDER,

INCLUDING CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM

INDIVIDUAL, INTERACTION AND SO ON

MICRO APPROACHES SAY:

EVERYDAY LIFE ISSUE MAY NOT BE EXPLAINED

ONLY WITH MACRO

CONCEPTS

SOCIAL LIFE DO NOT CONSIST OF ONLY THE REALITY OF STRUCTURE

SELF GENERATING MEANINGS SHARED

AMONG INDIVIDUALS

SOCIOLOGISTS BEGAN TO PAY ATTENTION OVER EVERYDAY LIFE

COULD WE FIND SOME

INSTRUMENT?BY WHICH MAY WE EXPLAIN

EVERYDAY LIFE?

MAY IT BE WORK LIFE?

WHAT

IS

EVER

YDAY

LIF

E?

HOW CAN WE

EXPLAIN

EVERYDAY

LIFE?

MEANING OF WORK IN PROCESS

(BEFORE REFORMATION/

AFTER REFORMATION)

NOT THE CONCEPT JUST THE WORD OF WORK CONTAINS

SEVERAL MEANINGS DIFFICULTY RESTRICTION

UNWILLINGNESS BOREDOM

PAIN

EXHAUSTING

AGONY

BEFOREREFORMATION

WORKING BECOMES UNIQUE INSTRUMENT WHICH MAY TAKE US TO GOD

AFTER REFORMATION

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION

WORK HARD (LONG TIME AND GAINING

MONEY)

SAVE MONEY

BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE BOTH THEY BECOME CLOSE TO GOD AND

GOD MAY GIVE THEM REMARKABLE

OPPORTUNITIES BY WORKING MORE

WHY MASS LABOUR MOVES

TO WILD LABOUR MARKETS?

EARLYLABOUR

MARKETS

EARLY FACTORY WORKERS

DESPITE LONG WORK TIMES (NEARLY ABOUT 18 HOURS A

DAY)

REFORMATION PROCESS IN WHICH MARTIN LUTHER INTERPRETE THE

BIBLE

MAY BE APPRECIATED

AS AN UNIQUE TOOL

TO FIND ANSWER «WHY MAINSTREAM SOCIETY BECOMES WILLINGNESS TO WORK?»

BY WORKING, SOCIETY GETS AN OPPORTUNITY

TO REACH GOD

GOD MEET THEIR NEEDS

TO SERVE FOR GOD

MATERIAL

PSYCHOLOGICAL

SOCIAL

BEFORE REFORMATION WITH REFORMATION

EXHAUSTINGDIFFICULTY

UNWILLINGNESSPAIN

BOREDOM RESTRICTION

AGONYRESTRICTION

REACH GOD

LET’S COMPARE

NO ONE WANT TO WORK MAINSTREAM SOCIETY BEGAN TO WORK

WHAT IS THE ANSWER OF THE QUESTION OF «WHY WORK?»

EARN LIVING

THIS ANSWER IS NOT ENOUGH FROM SOCIOLOGICAL POINT OF

VIEW

WORK

SOMETHING

OWNEDSOMETHING

ACHIEVEDSOMEWHERE TO

GO

MAKE THE CONCEPT OF WORK EXTRAORDINARY

AS WELL COMPLEX

WORD OF

WORK

TELLING US «WHAT TO DO»

DIMENSIONS OF THE CONCEPT OF WORK

MATERIAL SOCIAL

WORK SPREAD IN WHOLE EVERYDAY LIFE

PARTICULARLY WITH THE SOCIAL DIMENSION

MAKES SEPERATION BETWEEN WORK AND

NON-WORK ACTIVITIES FAIRLY DIFFICULT

CONTRADICTION BETWEEN WORK

ACTIVITIES AND NON-WORK ACTIVITIES

MANY ACTIVITIES INITALLY SEEM WORK MAY NOT BE WOK IN

DETAIL

MANY ACTIVITIES INITALLY NOT SEEM

WORK MAY BE WORK IN REALITY

CLEANING THE CEILING MEETING

THIS MEANS SOMEONE EARN LIVING THROUGHOUT NON-WORK

ACTIVITIES SOMEONE NOT

SCHOOL DIRECTOR WHO PLAY BASKETBALL

BASKETBALL PLAYER

SINGER

PAINTER

LAWYER WHO PAINT

EXECUTIVE WHO SINGING A SONG

BOTH CONCEPTS MAY HAVE DIFFERENT MEANINGS FOR THE PERSONS OF THE SOCIETY

PROFESSSOR

MANAGER

EXECUTIVE

TYPIST

ACCOUNTANT

OCCUPATIONS NOT BEING EASILY RESTRICTED ONLY WITH THE LIMITATIONS

OF WORK LIFE

I PREFER WORKING FOR COMMUNITY

ORGANISATIONS VOLUNTARILY

CONSIDER WHO PREFER LEISURE TO WORK

WHAT CAN YOU SAY ABOUT ALL OF THE ACTIVITIES MENTIONED ABOVE ?

WHI

CH

ON

E IS

W

ORK

?

WHICH ONE IS NOT WORK?

COULD ANYONE SAY NEITHER OF THIS IS

WORKCOULD SOMEONE SAY BOTH OF THEM ARE WORK?

I MEAN FINDING

GOLDEN ANSWERS FOR

THESE QUESTIONS ARE NOT EASY

INTEGRITY OF WORK LIFE AND

NON-WORK LIFE

THE ANSWER GIVEN TO «WHY ARE YOU WORKING?» CONTAINS NON-

WORK LIFE QUALIFICATIONS

I’M WORKING,

BECAUSE I HAVE

TO LIVEWHY ARE YOU

WORKING?

THIS ANSWER IS THE UNIVERSAL AND RATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MEANING OF WORK

THE CONCEPT OF WORK ALSO GIVES US………

IDENTITY

SENSE

SELF-WORTH

THE QUESTION OF «WHAT KIND OF WORK DO YOU

DO?

OFTEN LEAD TO CLOSE FRIENSHIP

INTEGRITY OF WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE

INTEGRITY OF WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE

WHAT IS YOUR WORK/JOB/OCCUPATION?

EDUCATION-CULTURE STATUTE-HONOR

INTERESTS-PREFERENCES HOPE-VALUE

OCCUPATIONAL SOCIETIES

NON-WORK LIFE RELATIONS

WORK LIFE RELATIONS

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MEMBERS OF OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNITIES NOT ONLY SEE THEMSELVES IN TERMS OF THEIR OCCUPATIONAL ROLE BUT ALSO

CARRY THEIR WORK RELATIONS INTO NON-WORK LIFE

INTEGRITY OF WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE

INCOME ATTAINED FROM WORK LIFE HOW SPENT INCOME?

FREEDOM OF SPENDING INCOME INCOME TENDED TO BE

COMSUMPTION

THE ISSUE APPEARS: NOT ONLY SHOPPING BUT ALSO CONSUMING /

SPENDING NON-WORK TIME

INTEGRITY OF WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE

REACH COMPROMISE THAT CHANGING

QUALIFICATIONS OF WORK LIFE HAVE

DRIVEN SOME PEOPLE TO SEEK

MEANING IN LEISURE

THE NECESSITY AND THE ROLE OF

WORK LIFE DO NOT ALLOW THIS

REPLACEMENT

INCREASING IMPORTANCE OF NON-

WORK LIFE IN EVERYDAY LIFE DOES

NOT MEAN THAT WORK LIFE IS NOT IMPORTANT

ANYMORE

BRAIN STORMING

LET’S CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE WAYS OF EARN LIVING?

APART FROM WORK, HOW CAN WE EARN LIVING?

WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER?

AS PROLETARAIT, BOURGEOISIE ALSO WORKS

WHO IS MUCH MORE MODERN THAN OTHER(S)?

INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

NEW ORGANISATIONSNEW THOUGHTS, ATTITUDES AND

INTERACTION PROCESS WHICH ARE

CONVINIENT TO THESE NEW ORGANISATIONS

INFLUENCES OF MACHINE OVER FACTORY WORKER

QUALIFICATIONS THAT MAKE FACTORY WORKER DEFINITLEY DIFFERENT THAN OTHER

OCCUPATIONS ARE THEIR PERMANENT INTENSIVE INTERACTION WITH MACHINE

MACHINE GIVES FACTORY WORKER QUALIFICATIONS SUCH AS CONTINIUTY, MAINTENANCE, REGULARITY AND PUNCTUANALITY

FACTORY WORKER ALSO CARRY THESE QUALIFICATIONS SUCH AS CONTINIUTY, MAINTENANCE, REGULARITY AND PUNCTUANILITY

INTO THE NON-WORK LIFE CONSCIOUSLY OR UNCONSCIOUSLY

FOR EXAMPLE

FACTORY WORKER WHO ACCUSTOMED

TO PUNCTIONALIT

Y AND RATIONALITY IN

PRODUCTION PROCESS

URGES ALL OF HIS/HER FRIENDS

COMING TO THEIR

APPOINTMENT IN TIME

EVEN IN NON-WORK LIFE

MASS PRODUCTION IN WORK LIFE FORCES FACTORY WORKER TO LIVE

PUNCTUALLY AND RATIONALLY EVEN IN NON-WORK LIFE, AND

THEREFORE IN WHOLE EVERYDAY LIFE

I MEAN

TO CONCLUDE

FIRST OF ALL, MAKING DEFINITE SEPERATION BETWEEN WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK

LIFE PARTICULARLY IN HUMAN MIND IS NOT EASY AS SUPPOSED

SECONDLY, IT IS RATHER REASENABLE TO MAKE DIFFERENTATION BETWEEN

WORK LIFE AND NON-WORK LIFE IN POINT OF «PLACE» AND «TIME». HOWEVER, EFFECTS OF EACH DIMENSION ON EACH OTHER COULD

NOT BE NEGLECTED

THIRDLY, UNLIKE MODERNISATION POINTED OUT THAT SOMEONE WHO

WANT TO BE PEACEFULL IN NON-WORK LIFE MUST WORK HARD IN WORK LIFE,

I SUGGEST THAT FORMING ACTIVE AND PEACEFULL EVEYDAY LIFE CLOSELY RELATES WITH DEVELOPING EACH DIMENSION EQUALLY

ACTIVE AND PLANNED NON-WORK LIFE MAY EMPOWER WHOLE EVERYDAY LIFE,

INCLUDING WORK LIFE

AND FACTORY WORKER IS IN ADVANTAGE OF FULFILLING THAT

«WHAT IS YOUR JOB/

OCCUPATION?»

FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION

DIRECTED SOMEONE SOON AFTER WE MEET

“DO YOU NOT HAVE

ANY WORK? WHY ARE

YOU SITTING

OVER THERE FREELY?”

TO URGE SOMEONE WHO SIT DOWN FREELY TO DO SOMETHİNG USEFUL

“HEY!I HAVE A LOT OF

WORK TO DO, LET ME SET FREE”

THOSE WHO TRIES TO KILL

OUR CONCENTRATE DURING WORK

“

LOOK AT HIS/HER WORK!

WHAT KIND OF WORK DOES (S)HE IS NOT

CLEAR

DECLARE SOMEONE

WHOSE WORK IS NOT PREFERRED IN MAINSTREAM

SOCIETY

“WHAT ARE YOU DOING RIGHT

NOW?

DO NOT SUPPOSE WHAT YOU DO IS

WORK”

THOSE WHO DOES NOT DO

OWN OR OTHERS WORK

CAREFULLY AND PROPERLY

“WHAT KIND OF WORK DO YOU

DO

WHAT IS YOUR WORK?”

THE QUESTION OF OUR FIANCE’S FATHER WHO TRIES TO GARANTEE HIS DAUGHTER’S FUTURE

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THSESE EXAMPLES WILL BE ABLE TO BE INCREASED AS

REGARDS DIFFERENT

CULTURES AND SOCIETIES

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION, TIME,

INTEREST AND ATTENTION

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