자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016934779

International Standard Book Number  

9798380106658

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

301

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Letak, Abigail M.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(163 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-02, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Bell, Michael M.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2023.

Restrictions on Access Note  

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This dissertation uses Mills' (1959) "sociological imagination" to socialize mental health and wellbeing, emphasizing the ways in which much of our stress and distress have both social roots and solutions. We cannot will our way to wellbeing in isolation. We must examine the ways our daily experiences around mental health and wellbeing are connected, reflecting the fundamental ways our selves are social and our being is relational. Using a three-paper model dissertation, I explore the connections between individual and social experiences of mental health and wellbeing in our neoliberal age.Using autoethnography, the first paper (Chapter 2), introduces the concept of "productivity anxiety," which I define as the significant stress (and distress) resulting from a constant pressure to be working hard, producing results, and advancing toward life goals. Looming large in my own life, productivity anxiety reflects the cultural imperatives of Weber's (1905) Protestant work ethic. Historically, anxiety fueled this work ethic; it now results from it as well, as we wrestle with the ramifications of a cultural system of value built on human instrumentality. But productivity anxiety isn't just my problem-it's our problem-resulting from shared social and cultural origins. I situate my own diagnosis with chronic fatigue within my experiences with productivity anxiety, explaining how my disability has reshaped my attitudes towards productivity and work. Even rest itself has become a site for productivity anxiety, and failing to practice enough self-care has become a sign of failure. Productivity is not inherently bad, as work gives much meaning to our lives; productivity divorced from relationality, however, leaves us to suffer in isolation. I aim for this autoethnography to be generative of both connection and conversation, allowing us to share experiences and appreciate the sociocultural causes of productivity woes given harsh cultural realities.A common way people navigate such realities and productivity anxiety is through self-care. In the second paper (Chapter 3), I use twenty-seven interviews with feminists to understand television viewing as it relates to self-care in the months immediately following the presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016. Contributing to the phenomenological understandings of everyday lived behavior and quotidian consumption of social movement participants, I discuss how these feminists navigate a television landscape often at odds with their sociopolitical values. I identify three interrelated tensions: (1) tension between holding feminist values and watching shows that may contradict those values; (2) tension between self-care and trying to be "woke" all the time; and (3) tension between the dismissal of television as trivial and the understanding of political economic implications of viewership in the age of streaming. In navigating a culture as is rather than as desired, these feminists use self-care as a vocabulary of motive (Mills 1940) for potentially problematic viewing behavior, raising important questions about the intersection of social movements, the self, and self-care in a neoliberal, capitalist society.In the final paper (Chapter 4), I discuss how the practice of self-care in its popularized and neoliberal form de-emphasizes social connection, instead centering hyper-individualization and commodification. Guided by the social psychological concept of the "social self" (Cooley 1902; Mead 1913, 1934), we must reconceptualize self-care as social self-care. Neoliberal ideology has shaped the way we have come to see the "self," "care," and "self-care," placing responsibility (and blame) at the individual level. A reconceptualization of neoliberal self-care to social self-care, as fundamentally social and relational, will be significant not only for the daily lived experience of self-care but for broader understandings of wellness and wellbeing in the twenty-first century.Together, the three papers wrestle with human being-as fundamentally social and relational-in a world that cares mostly for human doing. And human being involves limitations; we must navigate the limits of our own physical, mental, and emotional energy in an often harsh and hostile world. More and more of us are facing the stress and distress of productivity anxiety, and it really is hard to be "woke" all the time. Through the connection and relationality of social self-care, we have the potential to care not only for ourselves, but for each other and our world.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Sociology.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Mental health.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Social studies education.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Social psychology.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Feminism

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Neoliberalism

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Productivity anxiety

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Self-care

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

Sociological imagination

Added Entry-Corporate Name  

The University of Wisconsin - Madison Sociology - LS

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-02B.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertation Abstract International

Electronic Location and Access  

로그인을 한후 보실 수 있는 자료입니다.

Control Number  

joongbu:639224