Life Choices - Understanding Dilemmas and Decisions

This book may be viewed as an ?antiguide? to decisionmaking. It rejects mechanical formulas and urges self-reflection and a critique of ideology. Through close readings of fifteen life history interviews, Tod Sloan creates a framework for the interpretation of dilemmas and decisions. Ultimately, we see that a life choice or turning point comprises

Sommario

The problem of choice; life history; life structure; psychologies of decision-making; life spheres; transitions; life projects; authenticity; ideology; back to the future.

Info autore

Tod Sloan is associate professor of psychology at the University of Tulsa. As a Fulbright scholar, he has lectured in Venezuela and Nicaragua. He is also the author of Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche.

Riassunto

Using 15 life-history interviews, this book creates a framework for the interpretation of dilemmas and decisions. As each individual recounts an instance when a life choice was necessary, the supporting analysis reveals the framework that triggered the sense that a turning point had been reached.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sloan, Tod Sloan, Sloan Tod
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9780367316686
• ISBN: 978-0-367-31668-6
• Pagine: 176
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general