Erin Cech, "The Trouble with Passion: How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality" (U California Press, 2021)
New Books in Economics
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The Passion Principle
i'm really interested in what these cultural schemes are and how they e related to explaining the passion principle. We can't navigate our social world without having theories about it, without having ways of understanding it. And so we rely on many different cultural schemes, or shared cultural models, to make our way through our day to day lives. So when we think about a taking one path that is alined with one particular cultural scheme, like the passion principle, there's a sense of emotion, there’s a sense of morality attached to that.
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