Busier Than Ever! : Why American Families Can't Slow Down /

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Busyness defines the lives of most Americans. For some, the focus of busyness is family. For others, it is career or social activities. Sometimes busyness results from a big event, like the catastrophic illness of a family member, but much of it builds from many seemingly inconsequential demands tha...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Darrah, Charles (Autor), English-Lueck, J.A (Autor), Freeeman, James M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Families > Time management > United States.
Families > United States.
Parenting > United States > Verenigde Staten > United States.
Parenting > United States.
Anthropology > Cultural and Social Anthropology.
Sociology > Culture.
Sociology > Family and Youth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PART ONE Busyness
  • 1. A Journey Through Busyness
  • 2. How Are We Busy?
  • 3. Why Are We Busy?
  • PART TWO Coping
  • 4. The Hidden Work of Thinking Ahead
  • 5. Making Manageable Worlds
  • 6. When Things Go Wrong
  • PART THREE Building Buffers
  • 7. Using Things
  • 8. Connecting People
  • 9. Remaking Family
  • PART FOUR Continuing Concerns
  • 10. Why It's So Hard to Say No
  • Acknowledgments
  • Families
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Family Index
  • Subject Index

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