Dreams of a Lifetime (eBook)

How Who We Are Shapes How We Imagine Our Future

Karen A. Cerulo, Janet M. Ruane (Autoren)

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2022
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22908-9 (ISBN)

Infos

How social status shapes our dreams of the future and inhibits the lives we envision for ourselvesMost of us understand that a person's place in society can close doors to opportunity, but we also tend to think that anything is possible when someone dreams about what might be. Dreams of a Lifetime reveals that what and how we dreamand whether we believe our dreams can actually come trueare tied to our social class, gender, race, age, and life events.Karen Cerulo and Janet Ruane argue that our social location shapes the seemingly private and unique life of our minds. We are all free to dream about possibilities, but not all dreamers are equal. Cerulo and Ruane show how our social position ingrains itself on our mind's eye, quietly influencing the nature of our dreams, whether we embrace dreaming or dream at all, and whether we believe that our dreams, from the attainable to the improbable, can become realities. They explore how inequalities stemming from social disadvantages pattern our dreams for ourselves, and how sociocultural disparities in how we dream exacerbate social inequalities and limit the life paths we believe are open to us.Drawing on a wealth of original interviews with people from diverse social backgrounds, Dreams of a Lifetime demonstrates how the study of our dreams can provide new avenues for understanding and combating inequalityincluding inequalities that precede action or outcome.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.6.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus. 3 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Abdomen • adage • Addition • Adult • advanced • americans • Amphisbaenia • Anatomy of Hope • And babies • Anecdote • Ann Swidler • Appendage • asexual reproduction • Budding • Capability • Career • Career choice • Carmela Soprano • Centrality • Certification • Cess • cestoda • coccyx • comrade • Concept • conceptual model • Consciousness • Copayment • Cotton Gin • Cultural Capital • cultural heritage • Culture • Demography • Designer • Determination • Distinctive feature • Drafter • dream story • Duke University Press • Earnest (company) • Economics • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Evolution • Evolutionary developmental biology • extracurricular activity • Family • Fantasy world • Finding • Fixed Income • focus group • Forelimb • Frankie Valli • fundamental interaction • germline • gift shop • Go Big or Go Home • Graduation • graduation rate • heat wave • History • Household income • Hymenoptera • I Dream • Illustration • Imagination • income • Institution • Intention • Invention • I Wish (manhwa) • laborer • lamarckism • Late Bloomer • Lawrence Kohlberg • Life Expectancy • Life Satisfaction • Live birth (human) • Livelihood • living wage • Longevity • Longitudinal study • Long term • Make a Difference • marital status • marriage • medal • medalist • Michael Corleone • middle class • month • Most Recent Common Ancestor • Motivation • narrative • Need for achievement • Nemertea • Net Worth • newlywed • Obligation • Obsessive Love • obstacle • Old age • optimism • Ovipositor • Ownership • percentage • Personal development • personal experience • Personality • philanthropy • Phrase (music) • Phylum • Play (activity) • plymouth colony • Prediction • pride • Probability • Productivity • Profession • Publication • Public culture • Quality Education • quality of life • Quality Time • Queen for a Day • Race (human categorization) • Real options valuation • recitation • Requiem for a Dream • Respondent • result • Role model • salary • scenario • school of thought • Second Life • self-concept • Self-Help • Senioritis (musical) • sept • sexual maturity • sibling • Social Class • Social Space • spouse • Student • support group • Technology • The Iconic • Their Lives • theory • The Pursuit of Happyness • The Various • This Country • Thought • To the Contrary • treatise • Ulna • Uncertainty • Unemployment • Upper Class • Utilization • wage • Wealth • Writing • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22908-2 / 0691229082
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22908-9 / 9780691229089