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NON-AMERICAN “AMERICAN DREAM”.
Ochinowski, Tomasz
Ochinowski, Tomasz
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The aim of the presented paper is to show, based on case study of Central European cultural archetype of “Lodzermensch”, how analysis of provincial pro-entrepreneurial myths can enrich the problematic of work ethics and simplify its dissemination through cultural capital. I adopted the definition of the myth by Michel de Centreu (1900/ 2008: 135), which defines it as a “fragmentary discourse connected with varied dealings of some society, which express them in symbolic way”. I compare this way of understanding the myth, with already classical research of Michelle Lamont (1992) considering workplace cultural capital. This author, using Bourdieu’s conception of the definition cultural capital during the analysis of business phenomenon, showed that both French and American executives tacitly expect that their employees would behave in the certain ways and profess special values, which construct the morality of work. These two dimensions behavioral and axiological create the workplace cultural capital. For those people who do not possess such capital (although officially they are not mentioned at any stage of the recruitment process) it is very difficult or maybe impossible to be promoted or even survive at the workplace in the System of Western capitalism.
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2012
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