نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسنده
گروه جامعه شناسی، دانشکده علوم اجتماعی، دانشگاه بین المللی امام خمینی، قزوین، ایران.
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
موضوعات
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسنده [English]
shaped the employment prospects and everyday survival strategies of young people. In such a context, resilience is not merely defined as a psychological capacity to recover from disruption, but rather as a socially and culturally embedded mode of adapting to persistent instability. This study investigates the discursive construction of resilience among Iranian youth in response to precarious work and examines how these narratives reflect broader power relations and socio-economic inequalities.
Drawing on a qualitative methodology and employing Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), the study analyzes 20 semi-structured interviews with university students in Tehran who are either employed in unstable jobs or actively seeking employment. Through detailed discourse analysis, four major components of resilience emerge: (1) a shared critical understanding of the dysfunctionality and informality of Iran’s labor market; (2) the internalization of precarity and normalization of labor-related suffering; (3) the emergence of everyday micro-resistances and adaptive strategies; and (4) the symbolic reconstruction of meaning through irony, humor, and identity work.
These discursive patterns are interpreted through a critical sociological lens, incorporating Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and symbolic capital, Foucault’s notion of governmentality and responsibilization, Butler’s theorization of precarity and agency, Bayat’s framework of quiet encroachment, and Scott’s theory of hidden transcripts. The study argues that resilience, in this precarious context, is both a strategy for survival and a quiet form of resistance—enabling young people to navigate structural uncertainty while subtly reconfiguring the meanings of work, worth, and selfhood.
Keywords: Resilience, Economic Precarity, Critical Discourse Analysis, Youth, Everyday Resistance.
کلیدواژهها [English]
)