Robert Castel

Robert Castel ( born March 27, 1933, Saint -Pierre- Quilbignon, today district of Brest, † March 12, 2013 in Vincennes ) was a French sociologist.

Life

Castel worked in the 1960s with Pierre Bourdieu together; Then he became interested in psychoanalysis and psychiatry. He undertook a critical sociological analysis of these issues and approached it to Michel Foucault. Finally, Castel turned to the phenomenon of social exclusion, the exclusion. He tries to understand why the wage-labor, which - had been a socially despised position gradually to the model - historically speaking: Wage labor became a social status with a particular social identity. However, it is a model that has come at the beginning of the 21st century due to the emergence of a precarious turn into a socio-political structural crisis.

Robert Castel was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and co-founder of the Groupe d' analyze du social et de la sociabilité (Group GRASS ).

Research

Castel operational research on transformations of employment, labor and social protection, the emergence of the precariousness and fragility of the individual.

Castel'sche zones of the working society

( Self- ) classification of workers, employees and the unemployed:

The zone transitions are fluid. Within a zone criteria such as gross monthly income, job security, work experience, influence / development opportunity at work, frustration, feelings, and status description are experienced and differently weighted by the wage workers. The life plan last " long run " of the built-in groups up to " daily basis " of decoupled.

( Dis) integration potential of gainful employment - a typology:

Integration zone

Zone of precarity

Zone of decoupling

Examples:

Bibliography

Monographs

Listed are French title with German translations:

  • German edition: The psychiatric order. The golden age of deception being. Translated from the French by Ulrich Raulff. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-518-07501-2
  • German edition: psychiatrization of everyday life. Production and marketing of psycho goods in the United States. Together with Françoise Castel, and Anne Lovell. Translated from the French by Christa Schulz. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-518-57604-6
  • German edition: The metamorphoses of the social question. A chronicle of wage labor. UGC, Konstanz 2000, ISBN 978-3-86764-067-1
  • German edition: The strengthening of the social. Life in the new welfare state. Translated from the French by Michael Tillmann. Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-936096-51-1
  • German edition: Negative discrimination. Youth riots in the Paris suburbs. Translated from the French by Thomas Laugstien. Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86854-201-1
  • German edition: The crisis of work. New uncertainties and the future of the individual. Translated from the French by Thomas Laugstien. Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86854-228-8

Publisher

  • 2009: precariousness, descent, exclusion. The social question at the beginning of the 21st century. Together with Klaus Dörre. Campus, Frankfurt / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38732-1
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