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  title info:
    title: Pursuing quality of life
    sub title: from the affluent society to the consumer society
  name:
    name part: Nevarez, Leonard
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Routledge
    date issued: c2011
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  abstract: From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. But how does the idea of quality of life envision the greater good, and what gets lost as a result? This book provides the critical framework for understanding the idea's contexts and tensions that are conspicuously missing in popular discussions, professional activities, and scholarly research on quality of life. With multiple case studies taken across North America and Europe, it provides a sociological perspective on the contradictory ways we talk about and pursue quality of life in relation to technology, consumerism, family, work, public space, rural ways of life, and ultimately the final years of life. Drawing on contemporary and classical social theory, it provides an incisive account of the historical shifts in developed societies over the last half-century that have transformed our views and pursuits of quality of life. Originally a promise to undertake collective effort and pursue social justice at a moment of unprecedented opportunity, quality of life now enshrines a solipsistic ideal with which to accommodate the storms of market forces and political failure. -- Product Description.
  table of contents: 1. Conceptual tensions -- 2. Intellectual history -- 3. Technology -- 4. Family -- 5. Work -- 6. Place -- 7. Politics -- 8. Futures
  note: Leonard Nevarez
  note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-255) and index
  subject:
    topic: Consumption (Economics)
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Quality of life
    genre: Case studies
  classification: HN25 .N48 2011
  identifier: 0203829743 (e-book)
  identifier: 0415890136 (hardback : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780203829745 (e-book)
  identifier: 9780415890137 (hardback : alk. paper)
  record info:
    record creation date: 100902
    record change date: 20121127093000.0
    record identifier: 0000079825