An Analysis Of The Identity Construction Of Urban Female White-collars In The Career Plays

With the arrival of mass consumption society and media society,the white-collar worker as the foundation of the middle class is more easily getting into the status anxiety,especially the female white-collar worker being required to maintain the balance between career and family life.They are in a pressing need of a way to have a self-look.Then penetrating into the society life from the perspective of play about career life has become a collective interest.How is the image of urban female white-collar workers portrayed in the TV play? What concrete identities do these female white-collar workers have under different spatial scales and conditions? And what kind of ideology does it hide behind? With these purposes,this paper firstly has reviewed a series of hot career play in recent years and divided the female white-collar roles into four basic types,namely tough and optimistic Cinderella,independent and helpless Lost Lady(The lost lady refers to the group of women who get high education,have got a good job,but have no lovers.),picky and arrogant Devil,enchanting and material Golden digger.Then it has chosen a most representative play named Ode to Joy to have a specific textual analysis.Besides,it has explored the identity of the urban female white-collar worker combining the perspective of identity construction.The study has showed that there are five dimensions in the identity construction of the urban female white-collar workers in career play.And psychological mechanism on the basis of identity is in pursuit of a bidirectional reflection between group and individual.Family and career both being the fundamental basis has decided that the dual identities of nature and society taken by female white-collar workers will be competing with each other.Besides the consumer behavior,as an important means of identity construction,is a symbolization of taste and identity.The differential mode of association formed by social communication leads to an increasingly stratification in group interaction patterns of female white-collar workers.Moreover,behind the career play the traditional requirement putting forward by patriarchal society does not vanish as the women independent self-consciousness improves,but the female is limited by other way of shaping the new image of office lady.