Transcending Economic Authority. From a Businessman’s Enthusiasm for the Applied Humanities to the Founding of a Regional “Club de Réflexion” (1950s–1980s)
In this article, the role of culture in the business world is explored based on the situated case of a businessman in Western France. In the 1950s, he was involved in a sector-based professional organization linked to productivity and informed by the humanities; twenty years later, he founded and in...
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Biens Symboliques / Symbolic Goods
2024
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | In this article, the role of culture in the business world is explored based on the situated case of a businessman in Western France. In the 1950s, he was involved in a sector-based professional organization linked to productivity and informed by the humanities; twenty years later, he founded and invested in a “Club de refléxion” (or “Thinkers’ club.”) Taking seriously the role played by modernist beliefs and their meaning—both in this man’s rising career and in the political, economic, and social configuration of an industrial city—reveals the impact of the circulation of ideas for this business leader (a belief in an entrepreneurial game that is inextricably linked to the common good and the acquisition of a reflexive stance) and the conditions of possibility for this appropriation of generic schemes in the city. The industry actor in question permitted himself, and was permitted by others, to take public stances in the local press and he transposed his acquired economic and psycho-sociological knowledge across to the Club Kervégan, which operated as both a neutral place and a political headquarters. This article therefore explores the transformation of economic authority into symbolic power. |
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