Interim report on User Vision Statement

Didier Demazière (1) , Alizée Delpierre (1)

1 CSO - Centre de sociologie des organisations (Sciences Po, CNRS)

This document outlines a user vision statement for the development of the HECAT platform. The HECAT project’s aim is to develop a new type of algorithmic approach that integrates the qualitative and experiential aspects of unemployment; it is in other words to work with the unemployed rather than on them. It proposes a state of knowledge on the experiences of the unemployed. Based on an analysis of social sciences literature, it highlights the salient features of these experiences and focuses on three major dimensions: (1) the ways of reacting to unemployment and the meanings that individuals attribute to job deprivation, i.e. "the lived experiences of the unemployed"; (2) public policies and institutional actions that target the unemployed and influence their experiences, i.e. "the government of the experiences of the unemployed"; (3) the situations of the unemployed in the labour market and with regard to employment that influence the attributed and experienced meanings of unemployment, i.e. "the inequalities within unemployment".

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences

Didier Demazière, Alizée Delpierre. Interim report on User Vision Statement. Sciences Po. 2020, 60 p. ⟨hal-04096115⟩