FROM CLASS STRUGGLE TO STRUGGLE FOR RECOGNITION?
ACHIEVEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION IN THE POST-INDUSTRIAL AGE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i4.49676Keywords:
Division of labor, Achievement principle, Recognition, Social classification, Critique of ideologyAbstract
The present article has as its starting point two interrelated types of internal criticism: one related to the contextual emergence of Axel Honneth's theory of recognition and another immanent to his own theory. In this sense, this article discusses the idea of recognition in the sphere of work, understood by Honneth as a intermediation between solidarity and the achievement principle present internally in the modern division of labor. Secondly, the post-industrial structure of work is analyzed as a fertile ground for the idea of achievement justice and it is questioned about the meaning of merit in the context of work, the symbolic power of qualification as social classification, as well as the idea of achievement ideology as the maintenance of social dominance and neutralization of class conflict.
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