The social life of achievement. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Nicholas J. Long and Henrietta L. Moore.
• Other Names: Long, Nicholas J
• Contents: List of illustrations; Acknowledgements <a href="/downloads/intros/LongSocial_intro.pdf" target="_blank"><img align="left" border="0" onmouseout="this.src='/img/icon_pdf.png'" onmouseover="this.src='/img/icon_pdf2.png'" src="/img/icon_pdf.png" /> Introduction: Achievement and Its Social Life; Nicholas J. Long & Henrietta L. Moore Chapter 1. The Achievement of a Life, a List, a Line; Kathleen Stewart Chapter 2. Against the Odds: A Professional Gambler's Narrative of Achievement; Rebecca Cassidy Chapter 3. Men of Sound Reputation: The Passionate Aurality of Achievement in Guyanese Birdsport; Laura H. Mentore Chapter 4. Political Dimensions of Achievement Psychology: Perspectives on Selfhood, Confidence and Policy from a New Indonesian Province; Nicholas J. Long Chapter 5. Directive and Definitive Knowledge: Experiencing Achievement in a Thai Meditation Monastery; Joanna Cook Chaqpter 6. Autism and Affordances of Achievement: Narrative Genres and Parenting Practices; Olga Solomon Chapter 7. Achievement and Private Equity in the UK: A Game of Abstraction, Sociality and Making Money; Sarah F. Green Chapter 8. For Family, State, and Nation: Achieving Cosmopolitan Modernity in Late-Socialist Vietnam; Susan Bayly Chapter 9. Practicing Responsibilisation: The Unwritten Curriculum for Achievement in an American Suburb; Peter Demerath Chapter 10. Competing to Lose: (Black) Female School Success as Pyrrhic Victory; Signithia Fordham Notes on Contributors; Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.5/4; Achievement motivation -- Social aspects; Academic achievement -- Social aspects; Ethnology; PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Academic achievement -- Social aspects; Achievement motivation -- Social aspects; Ethnology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781461952480; 1461952484; 9781782382218; 1782382216
• Related ISBNs: 9781782382201; 1782382208
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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