Approche socioclinique de la souffrance au travail1

Suffering at work has become a major social phenomena. This situation has many causes: high performance enhancement, urgency seen as an obligation, pressure for results, but also fear, and the soaring of ‘the battle for places’ (la lutte des places). The psychopathological consequences of pressure at work are now well known: breakdowns, professional exhaustion, work addiction, burnout, harassment. Stress has become an ordinary tool for management. Employees cannot find a meaning to this context, nor can they identify the causes of their ill being or the reasons for the violence they endure. They confront an opaque and paradoxical power. Looking for solutions to the contradictions to which management has given rise without resolving, they become responsible for those difficulties and guilty of their own suffering. These are ‘innocent violences’ in so far as they are justified by an indisputable system of management.     

Exposure to occupational violence and the buffering effects of intra-oranizational support

This paper presents a conceptually distinct analysis of the data first reported by Leather et al. Specifically, it investigates the effects of exposure to a variety of forms of work-related violence upon work attitudes and general well-being within a sample of UK public house licensees—individuals who manage public houses and hold the licence permitting the sale of alcoholic drinks on the premises. In addition, it examines the role of social support in moderating such effects. Based upon a sample of 242 licensees, it reports a consistent interaction between exposure to such violence and the availability of perceived intra-organizational support in determining the size of any negative effects upon individual well-being, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. It is argued that exposure to all forms of work-related violence, including intimidation, verbal abuse and threat, should be seen as a potential stressor within the work environment, the negative effects of which are buffered by perceived support from within the organization, but not by that perceived to be available from informal sources such as family and friends.     

妇女遭受家庭暴力的现状、原因与对策

家庭是组成社会的细胞,日益严重的家庭暴力破坏了家庭和社会的稳定。妇女遭受家庭暴力问题近年来引起世界各国的普遍关注。本文通过对妇女遭受家庭暴力的现状和原因分析,力求提出行之有效的预防和解决家庭暴力的对策。     

浅析竞技体育中的社会问题

通过文献资料法,对竞技体育在快速发展过程中滋生的社会问题及原因进行了分析,认为:竞技体育中主要存在违禁药物的使用、球场暴力、黑市"博彩"以及腐败等社会问题;其原因是多方面的,既有竞技体育目标偏离和其工具性作用等内部的影响,也有政治、体制等外部因素的干扰.     

官员暴力犯罪问题初探

官员暴力犯罪正呈现上升趋势，具有官商或官黑结合、手段残忍、计划周密、影响恶劣等特点，严重影响党和政府形象。其出现并非偶然，而是有着错误权力暴力观、人权意识缺失、唯我独尊的自大狂心态、权力监督机制运行上的失控、腐败现象的蔓延、官员自身素质的低下、干部升迁体制的缺陷、黑恶对权力系统的渗透等多方面的社会基础与体制成因。应通过完善权力监督、腐败防范、科学考察及任用官员、政治公平竞争、官员暴力犯罪从重处罚等长效机制，改革政治体制，净化政治生态环境，有效遏止该现象的蔓延。     

中国家庭暴力研究评述

1995年世界妇女大会在中国召开后,家庭暴力作为社会问题在中国受到普遍关注。对近年来中国家庭暴力现象和问题的研究作简要的综述和评价,分析了家庭暴力的现状调查、口述研究、干预模式,介绍了社会学、医学、历史学等研究视角下的家庭暴力研究。中国的家庭暴力研究,从研究对象看,集中于婚姻维系期内的婚内暴力;从研究视角看,社会性别视角占主流地位;从预防和干预模式看,主要集中于对反家庭暴力项目的介绍、宣传和经验总结。虽然目前中国的家庭暴力研究已取得丰硕成果,但从研究视角、研究范畴等方面看,还有许多值得深入研究的课题,有待研究者进一步深化和发展。对家庭暴力研究成果的介绍,可为该领域的研究者提供资料的帮助和进一步研究的参考。     

The Art of Pacifying an Aggressive Client: ‘Feminine’ Skills and Preventing Violence in Caring Work

This article explores the complex interconnection between gender and emotion in the context of client‐perpetrated violence at work, focusing on interviews with and writings by Finnish nurses and social workers to discuss the ‘feminine’ emotional skills that are supposed to prevent violence. The social formation of these skills is analysed with the concept ‘emotional habitus’: emotional skills derive from the socially acquired disposition to manage emotions according to the gendered values of caring work. Emotional habitus, based on the internalized, second‐nature sense of emotional management, is shown to both persuade and enable employees to use emotional skills as assets for negotiating violence. This article discusses the potentiality for active agency enabled by skilful emotional management in violence prevention, bearing in mind the gender inequalities and internal contradictions connected to the social formation and practice of those skills.     

Self,Emotions, and Extreme Violence: Extending Symbolic Interactionist Theorizing

Extreme violence revolves around actions of individuals who are emotionally aroused and willing to kill themselves, if need be, to inflict harm on enemies. Terrorism, gangbanging, and genocide are conspicuous examples of extreme violence. This violence is ultimately driven by repressed negative emotions about self that are transmuted into variants of anger and combinations of anger with satisfaction‐happiness to produce emotions such as hatred, righteous anger, and vengeance. This theory combines symbolic interactionism's emphasis on identity and self with key ideas from gestalt theories, psychoanalytic theories, and interaction ritual theory as well as data from primatology, evolutionary biology, and neurology. I explain extreme violence as the outcome of several converging forces: the neurological capacity for humans as evolved apes to experience and express a large palate of high‐intensity emotions, the experience of shame in key institutional spheres, the repression of shame (and, at times, guilt and alienation as well as other highly charged negative emotions), the intensification and transmutation of these repressed emotions into variants and elaborations of anger, the making of external attributions blaming external targets for negative experiences, the portrayal of these targets in highly negative terms, and the charging up of positive emotions in interaction rituals directed at inflicting harm on external enemies.     

Domestic Violence Service Providers’ Needs and Perceptions of Technology: A Qualitative Study

There is growing recognition of the need to better understand the intersections between the work of domestic violence service providers and technology. Professionals who work with clients impacted by domestic violence are increasingly using technologies across different aspects of their work, including communicating with other professionals and seeking information and resources via the Internet. The current study used qualitative data from two sources—individual interviews and two focus groups—to learn about domestic violence service providers’ needs and perceptions related to technology use. The results provide insights about technologies used currently, expected benefits of future technological advances, barriers to using technology, and participants’ self-rated levels of comfort with technology.     

World Culture,Uncoupling, Institutional Logics,and Recoupling: Practices and Self‐Identification as Institutional Microfoundations of Political Violence

This study proposes a micro‐institutional theory of political violence, according to which citizens' participation in political violence is partially an outcome of tight coupling of persons' practices and self‐identifications with institutional logics opposed to dominant logics associated with world culture, such as the nation‐state and gender equality. The study focuses on two types of institutional carriers through which persons adopt institutional logics: routine practices and self‐identifications associated with three institutional logics: the familial, the ethnic, and the religious logics. Using a 15‐country survey data from early twenty‐first‐century sub‐Saharan Africa, the study finds evidence in support of the theory. Reported participation in political violence is associated with practices and self‐identifications uncoupled from dominant world‐culture logics but tightly coupled with the patriarchal familial logic, with an oppositional ethnic logic, and with a politicized oppositional religious logic.