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A Case Study Of Y Girl

Posted on:2014-01-22Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B Q ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2247330398479743Subject:Anthropology
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Quite a few places of amusement are classified as the "gray" industry, for these places run both legal and illegal businesses. Legal amusement businesses include drinks, song request, catering and so on, while illegal ones include drugs, gambling and sexual service. The majority of the public regard people engaged in the sexual service in the way that the mainstream has judged them for many years. The academic community boasts a great many multi-dimensional researches on it, the starting point of which can be generally divided into individual and social environment factors----micro and macro aspects. People are under the impression that women take up this career due to either external pressure and force or their subjective choice. However, it is not the truth through observation. A certain number of women are not forced at all by the organization or the club, but they are tremendously and imperceptibly guided by the club in their professional desires. It is an unconscious conversion process.Therefore, this paper studies the organizational ecology and women engaged in sexual service in commercial places of amusement (night clubs), aiming at removing the special value that has been covered on this group of people, neutrally exploring the penetrating, controlling and self-reconstruction mechanism that the organizational culture has exerted on individuals, and hoping to explain the occupation-taking reasons of part of women engaged in sexual service in a different and new perspective.The paper applies the field observation method as the main research method, combining with the semi-structural interviewing method and the document study method. The observation in the later stage is focused on women who obtain clubs’ recruitment information through various advertisements (acquaintances in the same industry will recommend employees) and expect to be employed as waitresses without the will to provide sexual service. The field work in the early period lasts three months without suspension. The observation finds that a certain number of women in clubs are aimless and have little idea of the "sexual service" that has not mentioned in the recruitment information before they work in clubs. After a period, most of them can adapt to the post well and gradually satisfy various requirements of the post.The study believes that these women comprehend the post in a slow and progressive way, and that they adapt to and satisfy the requirements of the post in a gradually deepened way. Due to the special characteristic and business requirements of this industry, night clubs need to employ a large number of women to meet the need of customers who want to enjoy the sexual amusement. As a result, these clubs develop a set of conversion mechanism for young women. This set mechanism, effective but imperceptible, is "inserted into" the club deeply and even exist in the "behavior style" that has taken shape for a long time in the amusement industry. Consequently, besides young women who have had experience in night clubs and realize the core of the post, the ones who are aimless about professional desires and even who reject this post will have a profound understanding of this post with the invisible pushing hand of this set of mechanism. Only a few women will feel reluctant or inadaptive to the post, thus the post vacancy will hardly occur.In this process, the club will held new staff interviews and daily meetings, encourage women to help each other, and protect them. It is an important factor for young women to adapt to the post and be a part of the working environment in night clubs.
Keywords/Search Tags:body-service female, alienation micro-power, identity
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