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The social life of achievement / edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 2.
- WYSE series in social anthropology ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Achievement motivation--Social aspects.
- Achievement motivation.
- Academic achievement--Social aspects.
- Academic achievement.
- Ethnology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, this collection develops an innovative framework for explaining achievement's multiple effects-one which brings together cutting-edge theoretical insights into politics, psychology, ethics, material
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life; Chapter 1: The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line; Chapter 2: Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement; Chapter 3: Men of Sound Reputation: The Achievement of Passionate Aurality in Guyanese Birdsport; Chapter 4: Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province; Chapter 5: Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery
- Chapter 6: Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting PracticesChapter 7: Achievement and Private Equity in the U.K.: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money; Chapter 8: For Family, State and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam; Chapter 9: Practising Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb; Chapter 10: Competing to Lose? (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory; Notes on Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 16, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-80758-363-5
- 1-78533-215-5
- 1-4619-5248-4
- 1-78238-221-6
- OCLC:
- 863671879
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