Recognition, social identity, collective dimension, intersubjectivity, social groups, Hegel, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, multiculturalism, social life, identity formation
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This document explores the concept of recognition and its role in shaping social identity and groups, as discussed in various academic texts.
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[...] This second part has been more precisely interested in the way recognition allows us to understand the collective, political scope of social ensembles. As part of a social identity, recognition is deeply linked to intersubjectivity. That is why we will now discuss its place in a particular sphere: that of work. III- Recognition at work: a borderline case? Work has taken a primary place in our lives. Means of subsistence but also social activity, it structures our place in society. [...]
[...] How does the concept of 'recognition' allow us to think about the contemporary forms of social organizations? If recognition brings together a conflicting set of definitions, it has historically served to characterize social groups, for whom the test of work is one of the salient questions. The 'recognition': a conflictual field of definitions Véronique Bedin and Martine Fournier show well the historical dimension of the notion of recognition that has opposed intellectuals since the end of the 18th century (Bedin, Fournier The emergence of this notion also refers to cleavages as to the values it implies. [...]
[...] Recognition brings the notion of actor, of subject where that of executors would prevail. Fighting against professional malaises would be to give meaning to work but also a place in the elaboration of it. The 'parity of participation' mentioned by N. Frazer would allow workers to become actors. This notion of justice (associated with that of merit) is also the conclusion of François Athané. It refers to a multitude of practices that go from the recognition of the individual to that of his investment, even his result. [...]
[...] This has led to questioning the role of recognition in its management. Work: a recognized place in need of recognition? Work is a recognized place as it is the central pivot of lives. Without work, physical, psychological, economic, and social well-being is put into question. On the other side, an overload of work often produces pains that encroach on other social universes such as family or leisure. This is the example that François Athané highlights by recalling the story of a manager who, pushed to the limit, commits suicide. [...]
[...] By proposing a minimal definition, recognition as constructive reaction in the sense that it creates a personalized, specific and short-term link', the philosopher makes recognition a simple exchange that allows for the multiplication of its manifestations. In another article, Brun analyzes the different dimensions of recognition by taking up the compartmentalizations mentioned above. He returns not only to the various possible definitions of recognition but also to the different schools and traditions that study them (Brun and Dugas, 2005). Thus, recognition appears as a fuzzy object with imprecise contours. If we can trace back the thread of its use, we cannot date the feeling of recognition nor truly circumscribe its perimeter of action. [...]
