Yaşanmış Deneyimler ve Öznellikler Çerçevesinde Tabakalaşmayı Okumak

Abstract

This article deals with social mobility through the work experiences of employees, self-employed or freelance workers and unemployed people who have organized themselves on certain platforms to discuss their experiences, expectations and problems at work. The main thesis of the article is the social mobility expectations of these individuals that correlate with their subjectification and desubjectification experiences in the working life. In this context, the article examines the managerial company model and the new management strategies. This model and company discourse, based on the subjectivity of the employee, constitute an important part of the socialization processes of individuals. In this sense, company’s and society’s promise of subjectification at work has been a measure of social mobility for individuals. The findings of objective social mobility do not coincide with the experiences of individuals, for the work is not experienced as subjectification as promised by the managerial company model. Those who experience upward social mobility and those who reproduce their fathers’ positions perceive themselves as having experienced downward mobility or loss of social class. In this context, this article develops a discussion on the subjective dimensions of social mobility. Accordingly, when social mobility is evaluated only on objective criteria, it is revealed that the result does not coincide with the experiences of individuals. In social mobility researches, it is highly important to consider subjectivities and lived experiences to understand the social reality of Turkey.