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Demonstrates how individuals use hope as a resource for coping with concerns about the long term future within the context of their everyday lives

Considers how the future has been conceptualised in sociological work

Uses interview-based data from 28 young adults, an underrepresented demographic, in studies of future oriented behaviours



Autorentext

Julia Cook is a Research Fellow in the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests and publications are concerned with the sociology of youth, time, risk and uncertainty, and religion.



Inhalt
1. Introduction .- 2. Diagnoses of the Future Horizon .- 3. Strategies for Relating to the Personal and Societal Future .- 4. Discourses of the Long-Term Future .- 5. Future Imaginaries in Theory and Practice .- 6. The Utility of Hope .- 7. Conclusion.
Titel
Imagined Futures
Untertitel
Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
Autor
Julia Cook
EAN
9783319653259
ISBN
978-3-319-65325-9
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Springer Nature Switzerland
Herausgeber
Palgrave Macmillan
Veröffentlichung
07.11.2017
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Wasserzeichen
Dateigrösse
1.45 MB
Anzahl Seiten
141
Jahr
2017
Untertitel
Englisch