Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title The social life of achievement / edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore.

Publication Info. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 238 pages).
text file
Series Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 2
Wyse series in social anthropology ; v. 2.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life / Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore -- Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line / Kathleen Stewart -- Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement / Rebecca Cassidy -- Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport / Laura H. Mentore -- Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province / Nicholas J. Long Chapter -- 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery / Joanna Cook Chaqpter -- 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices / Olga Solomon -- Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money / Sarah F. Green -- Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam / Susan Bayly -- Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb / Peter Demerath -- Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory / Signithia Fordham -- Notes on Contributors; Index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Achievement motivation -- Social aspects.
Achievement motivation -- Social aspects.
Achievement motivation.
Academic achievement -- Social aspects.
Academic achievement -- Social aspects.
Academic achievement.
Ethnology.
Ethnology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Long, Nicholas J., editor.
Moore, Henrietta L., 1957- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Social life of achievement. First edition. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013 9781782382201 (DLC) 2013020237 (OCoLC)857897635
ISBN 1306142342 (e-book)
9781306142342 (e-book)
9781782382218
1782382216
9781782382201 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
1782382208 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9781461952480
1461952484
Standard No. ebr10806808