Social boredom, quasi-voluntary behavior, workplace
We did not mind in the same way in a classroom, and a Sunday rainy afternoon. However, it can be noted some similarities to what V. Nahum-Cluster [1995, p. 34] calls "the ordinary social nuisance" and refers to the following performances: "ordinary social boredom makes us think so loose, the metro, the married couple, in the hollow of the work year, the bottom of the day of the unemployed, in the light of neon narrowed to provincial areas, large areas emptied in August to lower levels of large state bureaucracies, the deputy head of business at a boarding school, the drawling childhood, large housing suburb Sunday afternoon. In this active imaging, there is an age of boredom, adolescence, Meteorology boredom, heavy leaden cloud, an effect of boredom, the desire to escape, to sleep. "We would like to show here how boredom can be considered as a social construct.
Boredom can also be analyzed as a quasi-voluntary behavior of opposition at work. This is to protect against the demands of teachers, to find a socially acceptable solution by all stakeholders the following problem: how to be a student without providing efforts related to school work? Those who are bored seek to win something. The problem would not be a failure ("lack of interest"), but rather a destructive mechanism of the individual relationship - work. Bored, it is therefore also reduce energy costs and risks, that B. Rollet [1992] referred to as "stress avoidance."
[...] You can enter through them a picture of boredom. The representation that derives is that most adults avoid almost instinctively, any "waste of time", while hollow moment. They can not do nothing, anxious before the unexpected, the break in the usual rhythms, holidays in the schedule . they have trouble knowing what to do in their spare time, some may be looking desperately to fill this famous leisure time by giving any organization the task of choosing and arranging their activities, as it is difficult to find an activity that makes sense, as recalled by J. [...]
[...] Those who are bored seek to win something. The problem would not be a failure ("lack of interest"), but rather a destructive mechanism of the individual relationship - work. Bored, it is therefore also reduce energy costs and risks, that B. Rollet [1992] referred to as "stress avoidance." It should be understood by this that the student will do everything possible to avoid the boring academic tasks: Totally contradicts the naive assumption that by designating a particular purpose, we can really convince an individual to pursue actively, most people, in most cases, try to do everything in their power to avoid being trapped by engaging in activities that do not appeal to them specifically. [...]
[...] However, it can be noted some similarities to what V. Nahum- Cluster [1995, p. 34] calls "the ordinary social nuisance" and refers to the following performances: "ordinary social boredom makes us think so loose, the metro, the married couple, in the hollow of the work year, the bottom of the day of the unemployed, in the light of neon narrowed to provincial areas, large areas emptied in August to lower levels of large state bureaucracies, the deputy head of business at a boarding school, the drawling childhood, large housing suburb Sunday afternoon. [...]
[...] Could we not also design to analyze boredom in terms of frequency and intensity? We then consider that our time is characterized by a succession of trouble, but that they are actually small scale, what some call "the frantic boredom". JP Delahaye [1998] uses this term to show how modern techniques boredom split into many small annoyances: wait a rebel control software; wait for the Web -always saturé- displayed on the screen for the page, which will ultimately not interesting; sort - to reject almost all - the countless information brings daily email . [...]
[...] This vacuum will bear the name of boredom. Boredom sends the signal that the current action is meaningless, and then forced him to ask: "Who am What I really want to do? "Summoned to define his personality" authentic the narcissist look into your endless pursuit of the truth of his ego. The problem is then self-sustaining. The more a society is obsessed with personal accomplishment, the more it will find its environment from potential sources of trouble that form the basis anxieties. [...]
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