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A Culture of Second Chances

- The Promise, Practice, and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life
Af: David M. Newman Engelsk Hardback

A Culture of Second Chances

- The Promise, Practice, and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life
Af: David M. Newman Engelsk Hardback
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This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of second chances is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers their costs and constraints, paying particular attention to the importance of judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
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This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept—as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience—has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of second chances is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers their costs and constraints, paying particular attention to the importance of judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 324
ISBN-13: 9781498553988
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1498553982
Kategori: Samfundsteori
Udg. Dato: 15 dec 2019
Længde: 26mm
Bredde: 237mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 15 dec 2019
Forfatter(e): David M. Newman
Forfatter(e) David M. Newman


Kategori Samfundsteori


ISBN-13 9781498553988


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 324


Udgave


Længde 26mm


Bredde 237mm


Højde 159mm


Udg. Dato 15 dec 2019


Oplagsdato 15 dec 2019


Forlag Lexington Books

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