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UNINA9910786364103321 |
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Vaillant George E. <1934-> |
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Titolo |
Triumphs of experience [[electronic resource] ] : the men of the Harvard Grant Study / / George E. Vaillant |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012 |
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0-674-07181-6 |
0-674-06742-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xi, 457 p.) |
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Aging - Social aspects - United States |
Aging - United States - Psychological aspects |
Men - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Cast of protagonists (decathlon score) -- 1 Maturation makes liars of us all -- 2 The proof of the pudding -- 3 A short history of the grant study -- 4 How childhood and adolescence affect old age -- 5 Maturation -- 6 Marriage -- 7 Living to ninety -- 8 Resilience and unconscious coping -- 9 Alcoholism -- 10 Surprising findings -- 11 Summing up -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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At a time when many people around the world are living into their tenth decade, the longest longitudinal study of human development ever undertaken offers some welcome news for the new old age: our lives continue to evolve in our later years, and often become more fulfilling than before. Begun in 1938, the Grant Study of Adult Development charted the physical and emotional health of over 200 men, starting with their undergraduate days. The now-classic Adaptation to Life reported on the men's lives up to age 55 and helped us understand adult maturation. Now George Vaillant follows the men into their nineties, documenting for the first time what it is like to flourish far beyond conventional retirement. Reporting on all aspects of male life, including relationships, politics and religion, coping strategies, and alcohol use (its abuse being by far the greatest disruptor of health and |
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happiness for the study's subjects), Triumphs of Experience shares a number of surprising findings. For example, the people who do well in old age did not necessarily do so well in midlife, and vice versa. While the study confirms that recovery from a lousy childhood is possible, memories of a happy childhood are a lifelong source of strength. Marriages bring much more contentment after age 70, and physical aging after 80 is determined less by heredity than by habits formed prior to age 50. The credit for growing old with grace and vitality, it seems, goes more to ourselves than to our stellar genetic makeup. |
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UNINA9910139473003321 |
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Autore |
Maanen Hans van <1950-> |
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How to study art worlds : on the societal functioning of aesthetic values / / Hans van Maanen |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, c2009 |
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1-003-69756-9 |
1-04-077451-2 |
1-282-45377-7 |
9786612453779 |
90-485-1090-2 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (314 p.) |
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Art and society |
Aesthetics |
Art - Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-301) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. The Institutional Theory of George Dickie; 2. The Institutionalist Pragmatism of Howard S. Becker and Paul Dimaggio; 3. Pierre Bourdieu's Grand Theory of the Artistic Field; 4. From Theory to the Methodology of Singularity: Bruno Latour and Nathalie Heinich; 5. Niklas Luhmann's System of Artistic Communications; 6. How Art Worlds Help the Arts to Function; 7. What |
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Philosophers Say that the Arts Do; 8. Foundations for the Functioning of Art Systems; 9. How Distribution Conditions the Functioning of Art; 10. How Aesthetic Values Become Contextualized |
Epilogue: For a Second Life of Artistic ExperiencesReferences; Index |
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This necessary and thought-provoking study brings together the organisational side of the world of the arts and the understanding of the many functions art fulfills in our culture. |
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