Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- A Fragmented World
- Noah
- Burcu
- Elif
- Nur
- Elif
- José and Zeynep
- Nur
- Aziz
- Karim
- Habib
- Unifying Worlds
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Karim
from Part III - Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- A Fragmented World
- Noah
- Burcu
- Elif
- Nur
- Elif
- José and Zeynep
- Nur
- Aziz
- Karim
- Habib
- Unifying Worlds
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
When we assess risk and weigh moral pressures, we reference (consciously or not) time maps that chart our remembered past and predicted future (Snyder 2016: 15–17). When we consider ourselves ahead or behind on a known path based on a narrative of success that we share with our peers, we are tracing our movement through a time map. When a company standardizes a career trajectory, promising employees a path from entry level to seniority with standard salary increases and pension contributions along the way, it creates a time map for those employees. That map aligns employees to the company’s moral world by making their long-term relationship with it predictable.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 162 - 170Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022