By Richard Sennett
A Business Week top publication of the Year.... "A devastating and utterly beneficial book."—Studs Terkel, writer of Working
In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's so much distinct thinkers . . . has centred into 176 pages a profoundly affecting argument" (Business Week) that pulls on interviews with disregarded IBM executives, bakers, a bartender became advertisements government, and so on to name into query the phrases of our new economic climate. In his 1972 vintage, The Hidden accidents of Class (written with Jonathan Cobb), Sennett interviewed a guy he referred to as Enrico, a hardworking janitor whose lifestyles used to be based by way of a union pay agenda and given that means by way of his sacrifices for the long run. during this new book-a number 1 bestseller in Germany-Sennett explores the modern scene characterised via Enrico's son, Rico, whose existence is extra materially profitable, but whose paintings lacks long term commitments or loyalties. distinct by way of Sennett's "combination of huge ancient and literary studying and a reporter's willingness to stroll right into a shop or manufacturing facility [and] strike up a conversation" (New York instances publication Review), this booklet "challenges the reader to determine no matter if the pliability of contemporary capitalism . . . is basically a clean type of oppression" (Publishers Weekly, starred review). compliment for The Corrosion of Character: "A benchmark for our time."—Daniel Bell "[A]n exceptionally insightful book."—William Julius Wilson "[A] notable synthesis of acute empirical statement and severe ethical reflection."—Richard Rorty "[Sennett] bargains plentiful clean insights . . . illuminated through his challenge with people's fight to provide aspiring to their lives."—[Memphis] Commercial Appeal
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The authors noted that caregiving included “caring for,” by which they meant practical, work-like activities, such as preparing and serving meals, providing transport, etc. It included “caring about” as well: providing emotional support, listening, sharing feelings, and generally helping to maintain each other’s psychological well-being. ” While the caregiver provided emotional support as well as practical support, their partners who had cancer also provided emotional support and concern for their spouses who had to cope with the fears and stresses associated with caregiving and the illness of someone they cared for.
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Chapter 3 The Life Course Perspective The life course perspective is a framework that has emerged over the past five or six decades within the social and behavioral sciences. It connects individual development with the social structure and culture as well as the historical time in which the stages of an individual’s life take place. George (1993) asserted that the “life course is a social phenomenon, distinct from the life span. ” She defined life-span simply as the duration of life.