Life Choices - Understanding Dilemmas and Decisions

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.

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: Tod Sloan, Sloan Tod
• Editore: Perseus Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 02.02.1996
• EAN: 9780813326573
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-2657-3
• Pagine: 176
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Libri sul benessere, vita quotidiana > Condotta di vita, auto-realizzazione; Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / General, Popular psychology