Practices of “care of the self” in direct-sales organizations

This article discusses the role of the practices of “care of the self” (M. Foucault) in modern organizations. M. Foucault describes those practices as a set of exercises, bodily and mental, which transform an individual into subject. This article describes how such direct-sales organizations as Mary...

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Main Author: Natalia V. Savelyeva
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology 2013-09-01
Series:Социологический журнал
Online Access:http://jour.fnisc.ru/upload/journals/1/articles/418/submission/proof/418-61-745-1-10-20150127.pdf