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ESCAPIST [5 records]

Record 1 2010-10-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
  • Criminology
  • Social Psychology
DEF

A state of passive withdrawal from society induced by a sense of inability to attain its norms or to offer resistance to them.

CONT

Identified by Merton as the escapist response... retreatism occurs when people become practically dropouts of society. They give up all goals and efforts to achieve success because they view it as an impractical, impossible, almost imaginary, and irrational possibility. Merton attributes this mode as the one to which drug addicts, alcoholics, vagrants, and the severely mental ill function because their reactions to not being able to obtain success by legitimate means represses them from society.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain
  • Criminologie
  • Psychologie sociale
CONT

Comment l'individu va-t-il s'adapter dans une société caractérisée par l'anomie ? Merton énumère cinq possibilités : conformisme (buts culturels et moyens institutionnels admis), innovation (buts culturels acceptés, moyens institutionnels rejetés), ritualisme (buts culturels rejetés, moyens institutionnels acceptés), retraitisme (buts culturels et moyens institutionnels rejetés), rébellion (buts et moyens rejetés et remplacés).

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Working Practices and Conditions
DEF

A process in which labour and management participate as equal partners in the restructuring of work and the organization of work processes to make jobs more satisfying and to increase the efficiency of the workplace.

CONT

More recently, infections such as hepatitis and AIDS have also been considered as occupational diseases. Socio-psychological conditions that influence the quality of work life include stress, burnout, dissatisfaction, withdrawal, procrastination, apathy, alcohol and drug abuse, and other forms of employee escapist behaviour.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Régimes et conditions de travail
DEF

Restructuration du milieu de travail immédiat de manière à rompre la monotonie du travail, à réduire le sentiment d'ennui qu'éprouve le travailleur et, d'une manière générale, à lui procurer une plus grande satisfaction au travail.

CONT

Depuis peu, des infections comme l'hépatite et le SIDA ont été classées parmi les maladies professionnelles. Parmi les conditions sociopsychologiques qui influent sur la qualité de vie au travail on retrouve le stress, l'épuisement professionnel, l'insatisfaction, le retrait, la temporisation, l'apathie, l'alcoolisme et les autres toxicomanies et d'autres comportements d'évasion adoptés par les travailleurs.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Prácticas y condiciones de trabajo
CONT

[...] los programas de calidad de vida en el trabajo involucran muchas actividades y técnicas, los programas se acompañan con aspectos de fondo diseñados para mejorar la calidad de la vida laboral.

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Record 3 1993-04-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Drugs and Drug Addiction

French

Domaine(s)
  • Drogues et toxicomanie

Spanish

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Record 4 1986-08-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
OBS

yearbook of int. org, 1973, p.648

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 5 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Performing Arts

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts du spectacle
OBS

Le Spectateur, 29 oct. 1946

Spanish

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