During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges t
During the waning years of Soviet power, glasnost laid bare the distress of people trapped in a system they despised but felt powerless to change. The reexamination of values that began then continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving, enabling Russians to meet the challenges they face in the contemporary world.Multi-textual, polyphonic, and contradictory, the current Russian cultural discourse is richly reflected in these essays by a diverse group of authors from Russian and American academic and cultural circles. Each chapter focuses on a particular cultural domain, surveying the historical origins of Russian beliefs and behaviours, exploring their Soviet and post-Soviet permutations, and highlighting the range of choices that Russians are facing at this critical juncture. The decisions they make will shape their society and culture for generations to come.Illuminating the universal significance of the Soviet experience, this volume raises provocative questions about the social, political, and economic sources of cultural change.
Discover what factors, beliefs, and attitudes build a successful marriage!In the enormous social, political, and technological upheavals since World War I, the long and happy marriage has begun to seem like an endangered species. In the desperate hunt for reasons that marriages fail, most researchers have ignored the factors that help marriages succeed. Together Through Thick and Thin: A Multinational Picture of Long-Term Marriage reports a landmark study of long-term satisfaction in marriage. Instead of relying on conjecture or unproven clinical hunches, the authors studied the happily married around the world. The respondents’early experiences included the Great Depression, World War II, and the Holocaust as well as the Roaring Twenties. In the years since they married, technological change and the women's movement have made the world almost unrecognizable. Yet these people have managed to maintain both stability and quality in their marriages. The scope of Together Through Thick and Thin is sweeping: eight countries, more than 400 couples who had been happily married for between 25 and 45 years. Factors analyzed include degree of satisfaction, gender differences, socioeconomic level, family history, shared values, religious belief and practice, attitudes toward children, physical health, and problem-solving styles, among many others. Moreover, the book builds on existing documented literature on marriage. This solid background helps put its wealth of practical data into context, an ideal synthesis of theory and practice.This study delves into the reasons couples stay together and stay satisfied. What qualities and attitudes do happily married couples share? Can the factors that keep a Chilean couple together for life also apply in the very different cultures of Sweden, Israel, South Africa, the United States? What keeps a marriage together in times of crisis? How important is love?Together Through Thick and Thin helps you understand the diverse factors that affect marital quality and stability by offering a broad range of information:a comprehensive review of the literature of happy marriage cross-cultural comparisons that kindle fresh insights discussions of factors ranging from gender and economic status to family history and shared attitudes specific behaviors and attitudes that illuminate what matters most in marriage, from mutual respect to shared fun the reasons couples stick together during crises which problem-solving behaviors actually workTogether Through Thick and Thin provides psychologists, family therapists, and couples counselors with the solid data they need to guide couples in crisis toward greater intimacy, commitment, and joy together.
Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of Russian-Jewish descent, who turned the “Potemkin village” trope into a powerful research program. The present study shows how key turns in Goffman’s career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history. It is based on the materials gathered in the Erving Goffman Archives, a repository curated by the author who has been collecting documents and conducting interviews with Goffman’s relatives, colleagues, and friends. The archival work turned up documents which improve our understanding of Goffman the scholar, the teacher, and the man. The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman’s scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.
Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of Russian-Jewish descent, who turned the “Potemkin village” trope into a powerful research program. The present study shows how key turns in Goffman’s career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history. It is based on the materials gathered in the Erving Goffman Archives, a repository curated by the author who has been collecting documents and conducting interviews with Goffman’s relatives, colleagues, and friends. The archival work turned up documents which improve our understanding of Goffman the scholar, the teacher, and the man. The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman’s scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.
'The most important book in social science for many years' Paul Collier, TLS Books of the Year The Upswing is Robert D. Putnam's brilliant analysis of economic, social, cultural and political trends from the Gilded Age to the present, showing how America went from an individualistic ‘I’ society to a more communitarian ‘We’ society and then back again, and how we can all learn from that experience. In the late nineteenth century, America was highly individualistic, starkly unequal, fiercely polarised and deeply fragmented, just as it is today. However, as the twentieth century dawned, America became - slowly, unevenly, but steadily - more egalitarian, more cooperative, more generous; a society 'on the upswing,' more focused on responsibilities to each other and less focused on narrow self-interest. Over the course of the 1960s, however, these trends reversed once again, leading to today's disarray. In a sweeping overview of more than a century of history, Putnam and Romney Garrett draw on inspiring lessons for our time from an earlier era, when a dedicated group of reformers righted the ship, creating once again a society based on community. Engaging, revelatory and timely, this is Putnam's most ambitious work yet, with a relevance right across the anglophone world. It is an unmissable contribution to the debate about where we want society to go.
Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope offers you integrated theories, practice, and research to provide you with the tools to be more effective when dealing with families in crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families explores the decline of families into extreme distress and helps you to determine the best intervention for that particular family, as no one single method can be prescribed for all families. Therapists as well as clients favor the joint-goal intervention you will discover through this book, which is carried out mostly in the family home where the therapist can delegate authority as a means of strengthening and preserving the family. Through Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families, you will receive a plethora of ideas which consist of multiple intervention techniques and alternatives for intervention, including:learning to organize institutions in the community to participate in getting families in extreme distress out of their long and perpetual predicament teaching you how cooperation between various government organizations, public and private, can be solicited for the welfare of these families offering you an anthro-psycho-social model of intervention that you will find effective in your own practice examining case studies so you can see how the new model works in real-life settingsTherapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is unique because not only does it offer you help with supervision and training aspects, but because it also ends with a qualitative and quantitative research evaluation of this new model. Comprehensive and thorough, this book deals with the difficulties that may arise to interfere with the effectiveness of the intervention so you can learn from it and prevent further crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is a must for anyone working with families in crisis.
Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families: From Distress to Hope offers you integrated theories, practice, and research to provide you with the tools to be more effective when dealing with families in crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families explores the decline of families into extreme distress and helps you to determine the best intervention for that particular family, as no one single method can be prescribed for all families. Therapists as well as clients favor the joint-goal intervention you will discover through this book, which is carried out mostly in the family home where the therapist can delegate authority as a means of strengthening and preserving the family. Through Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families, you will receive a plethora of ideas which consist of multiple intervention techniques and alternatives for intervention, including:learning to organize institutions in the community to participate in getting families in extreme distress out of their long and perpetual predicament teaching you how cooperation between various government organizations, public and private, can be solicited for the welfare of these families offering you an anthro-psycho-social model of intervention that you will find effective in your own practice examining case studies so you can see how the new model works in real-life settingsTherapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is unique because not only does it offer you help with supervision and training aspects, but because it also ends with a qualitative and quantitative research evaluation of this new model. Comprehensive and thorough, this book deals with the difficulties that may arise to interfere with the effectiveness of the intervention so you can learn from it and prevent further crisis. Therapeutic Intervention with Poor, Unorganized Families is a must for anyone working with families in crisis.
A key step or event in the evolution of anything is referred to as a milestone. It establishes a framework for tracking and observing the youngster throughout time. Each child is an individual who excels in their own way. Children that are the same age chronologically may show variations in the early stages of different biological frameworks. Formative achievements are a few distinct skills or actions that most kids can complete at a certain age. The stages help to define a child's creative process. Every child is an individual. Children are capable of completing a task over an extended length of time. The period of growth throughout childhood is great. In every area of their lives, as they mature from infancy to maturity, they go through significant changes.
Uma etapa ou um acontecimento importante na evolu o de qualquer coisa designado por marco. Este estabelece um quadro de acompanhamento e de observa o do jovem ao longo do tempo. Cada crian a um indiv duo que se destaca sua maneira. As crian as que t m a mesma idade cronol gica podem apresentar varia es nas fases iniciais de diferentes estruturas biol gicas. As realiza es formativas s o algumas compet ncias ou ac es distintas que a maioria das crian as consegue realizar numa determinada idade. As etapas ajudam a definir o processo criativo de uma crian a. Cada crian a um indiv duo. As crian as s o capazes de realizar uma tarefa durante um longo per odo de tempo. O per odo de crescimento ao longo da inf ncia grande. Em todos os dom nios da sua vida, medida que passam da inf ncia para a maturidade, sofrem mudan as significativas.
Ein wichtiger Schritt oder ein Ereignis in der Entwicklung einer Sache wird als Meilenstein bezeichnet. Er schafft einen Rahmen, in dem das Kind im Laufe der Zeit verfolgt und beobachtet werden kann. Jedes Kind ist ein Individuum, das sich auf seine eigene Art und Weise auszeichnet. Kinder, die chronologisch gesehen das gleiche Alter haben, k nnen in den fr hen Stadien der verschiedenen biologischen Rahmenbedingungen Unterschiede aufweisen. Pr gende Leistungen sind einige bestimmte F higkeiten oder Handlungen, die die meisten Kinder in einem bestimmten Alter vollenden k nnen. Die Stufen helfen dabei, den kreativen Prozess eines Kindes zu definieren. Jedes Kind ist ein Individuum. Kinder sind in der Lage, eine Aufgabe ber einen l ngeren Zeitraum hinweg zu bew ltigen. Die Wachstumsphase in der Kindheit ist gro . In jedem Bereich ihres Lebens machen sie auf dem Weg vom S uglingsalter zur Reife bedeutende Ver nderungen durch.
Una tappa o un evento chiave nell'evoluzione di qualsiasi cosa viene definita pietra miliare. Essa stabilisce un quadro di riferimento per seguire e osservare il bambino nel corso del tempo. Ogni bambino un individuo che eccelle a modo suo. I bambini che hanno la stessa et cronologica possono mostrare variazioni nelle prime fasi dei diversi quadri biologici. I risultati formativi sono alcune abilit o azioni distinte che la maggior parte dei bambini pu completare a una certa et . Le fasi aiutano a definire il processo creativo di un bambino. Ogni bambino un individuo. I bambini sono in grado di portare a termine un compito per un periodo di tempo prolungato. Il periodo di crescita durante l'infanzia grande. In ogni ambito della loro vita, man mano che passano dall'infanzia alla maturit , subiscono cambiamenti significativi.
Une tape ou un v nement cl dans l' volution d'une chose est appel un jalon. Il tablit un cadre pour le suivi et l'observation de l'enfant au fil du temps. Chaque enfant est un individu qui excelle sa mani re. Les enfants qui ont le m me ge chronologique peuvent pr senter des variations dans les premiers stades de diff rents cadres biologiques. Les r alisations formatives sont quelques comp tences ou actions distinctes que la plupart des enfants peuvent accomplir un certain ge. Les tapes aident d finir le processus cr atif d'un enfant. Chaque enfant est un individu. Les enfants sont capables d'accomplir une t che sur une longue p riode. La p riode de croissance tout au long de l'enfance est importante. Dans tous les domaines de leur vie, mesure qu'ils passent de l'enfance la maturit , ils subissent des changements importants.
The human skin, as the largest organ of the body, is home to numerous neoplastic and non-neoplastic disorders. The vast majority of non-neoplastic skin diseases are inflammatory in nature, while a small subset is non-inflammatory. This book covers 194 non-neoplastic dermatologic conditions, classified by their primary microscopic tissue reaction patterns. Our aim is to provide a concise, practical, and up-to-date review of these diseases. We offer a discussion on the clinical presentation, histopathologic features, pathogenesis, differential diagnosis, and management for each entity. One of the key attributes of this clinical atlas is the abundant collection of clinical and microscopic images used to illustrate the salient features of these disorders. In this book, we will focus on inflammatory dermatoses, which encompass a wide range of dermatologic conditions that can be challenging to diagnose due to significant overlaps in clinical and histopathologic features. Dermatopathologists are more likely to encounter unusual or ambiguous cases that are particularly difficult to classify. The interpretation of non-neoplastic skin biopsies requires not only microscopic pattern recognition but also careful integration of clinical history, laboratory data, and other ancillary findings, wherever available, to render the most appropriate diagnoses. We hope that this book will help our readers as they interpret challenging skin biopsies for non-neoplastic diagnoses.
