A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices :: Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives.

The contemporary cultural phenomenon of self-help is highly visible and yet inadequately understood. This study explores the seeming polarization of self-help - the splitting of the individual (the self) and the collective (the help) - through detailed ethnographic examination of self-help books and...

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1. Verfasser: Cherry, Scott
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
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Zusammenfassung:The contemporary cultural phenomenon of self-help is highly visible and yet inadequately understood. This study explores the seeming polarization of self-help - the splitting of the individual (the self) and the collective (the help) - through detailed ethnographic examination of self-help books and self-help groups. It relates these "poles" by exploring a central and connecting event, hypothesized as the hyphen in self-help, a workshop for a group of readers led by a self-help book author.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (350 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780773420687
0773420681

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