Resumen de “What are we doing with our lives?” Work and normativity in day-to-day conversational accounts

Lisandre Labrecque Lebeau

• Daily conversations reveal the normative issues of societies through their topics, their modalities and their reception by individuals. Work has proved to be one of the essential normative realms in the conversational accounts we studied. Individuals singularize themselves through work and in conversations about work: it becomes an experience of status, but also an identifying, even an aesthetic one, insofar as it resonates more broadly with a way of life and experience of reality