Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vi, 238 pages)
Series Statement:
Wyse series in social anthropology v. 2
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Social life of achievement
DDC:
302.5/4
Keywords:
Achievement motivation Social aspects
;
Academic achievement Social aspects
;
Ethnology
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Academic achievement ; Social aspects
;
Achievement motivation ; Social aspects
;
Ethnology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
