""The Future Self concept is simple yet rarely practiced. To make quality decisions, know where those decisions will take you. Decisions and actions are most effective when reverse-engineered from a desired outcome so start with what you want and work backwards. Once you have yo…
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""The Future Self concept is simple yet rarely practiced. To make quality decisions, know where those decisions will take you. Decisions and actions are most effective when reverse-engineered from a desired outcome so start with what you want and work backwards. Once you have yo…
Preface for instructors -- Preface for students -- Acknowledgements -- A day in the life of your jeans : using our stuff to discover sociology -- Surviving (and thriving) in consumer culture -- You are what you eat: culture, norms and values -- Fast-food blues: work in a global …
The challenges of teaching a successful introductory sociology course today demand materials from a publisher very different from the norm. Texts that are organized the way the discipline structures itself intellectually no longer connect with the majority of student learners. T…
The idea of the self is immediately familiar to everyone, yet elusive to define and understand. From pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister, this volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge to provide a panoramic view of the human self -- how it develops and functions, why it e…
"Part I addresses basic questions on how to think about the self. How does the individual fit in to society, and indeed is the self shaped more by society or by individual choice and action? Chapter 2 describes how the self results from active interplay of the individual animal …
The idea of the self is immediately familiar to everyone, yet elusive to define and understand. From pioneering researcher Roy F. Baumeister, this volume synthesizes a vast body of knowledge to provide a panoramic view of the human self -- how it develops and functions, why it e…
"Part I addresses basic questions on how to think about the self. How does the individual fit in to society, and indeed is the self shaped more by society or by individual choice and action? Chapter 2 describes how the self results from active interplay of the individual animal …
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives-what we ate…
Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives-what we ate…
Introduction -- Sharing the everyday -- Performing identity work -- Remembrancing -- Reckoning -- Conclusion
How sharing the mundane details of daily life did not start with Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube but with pocket diaries, photo albums, and baby books.