Sociology of failure: coupling social infrastructures and personal experiences

The project aims to understand the social organization of failure in contemporary society by identifying social infrastructures of failure (procedures and narratives) and associated subjective experiences. In classical sociology, the concept of failure played an important role (e.g., anomie or protestants’ economic anxiety); however, it was marginalized to mere dysfunction or deviation in modern sociology. To restore disciplinary interest in failure as a normal phenomenon, we will investigate the link between the social organization and the experience of failure in four areas of human activity: business incubators, platform work, environmental education, and development projects. We will conduct empirical research in these areas, combining textual, observational and institutional data analysis with an emphasis on using transparent research methods to increase the reproducibility of results.

Project team of FSV UK (2)

doc. Mgr. Martin Hájek, Ph.D.

Principal investigator

+420 267 224 238

martin.hajek@fsv.cuni.cz

Team member