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Autore |
Wendland Joel <1972-> |
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Titolo |
The collectivity of life : spaces of social mobility and the individualism myth / / Joel Wendland |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (229 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social mobility |
Group identity |
Individualism |
Space |
Discourse analysis, Narrative |
Ethnology - Biographical methods |
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Formato |
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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Introduction; 1 Theory; 2 Myth-busting; 3 Spaces for Cultural Literacy; 4 Space and the Overdetermination of "Choice"; 5 Articulating Space; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book reads twentieth-century autobiography and oral histories spatially to unearth how writers and activists understood social mobility as a collective process. In so doing, they constructed a counter-mythology to the American dream myth of individualism. |
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