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Książka Disrupted Lives Gay Becker

Disrupted Lives

How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World

Autor: Gay Becker
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Miękka
Wydawca: University of California Press
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the f...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Gay Becker
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Miękka
Data wydania
1999
strony
275
EAN
9780520209145
ISBN
0520209141
Enbook ID
04616239
Wydawca
University of California Press
Waga
448
Wymiary
153 x 225 x 18

Pełny opis

Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor - a flat tire, an unexpected phone call - to the fateful - a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives. Through vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of disruptions, Becker examines how people rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds, from the meaning of disruption to the meaning of life itself. Becker maintains that to understand disruption, we must also understand cultural definitions of normalcy. She questions what is normal for a family, for health, for womanhood and manhood, and for growing older. In the United States, where life is expected to be orderly and predictable, disruptions are particularly unsettling, she contends. And, while continuity in life is an illusion, it is an effective one because it organizes people's plans and expectations. Becker's phenomenological approach yields a rich, compelling, and entirely original narrative. "Disrupted Lives" acknowledges the central place of discontinuity in our existence at the same time as it breaks new ground in understanding the cultural dynamics that underpin life in the United States. From the book: 'The doctor was blunt. He does not mince words. He did a [semen] analysis and he came back and said, 'This is devastatingly poor.' I didn't expect to hear that. It had never occurred to me. It was such a shock to my sense of self and to all these preconceptions of my manliness and virility and all of that. That was a very, very devastating moment and I was dumbfounded...In that moment it totally changed the way that I thought of myself'.

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