Imagined Futures: Hope, Risk and Uncertainty

By Julia Cook

Book Overview

Demonstrates how individuals use hope as a resource for coping with concerns about the long term future within the context of their everyday lives

Considers how the future has been conceptualised in sociological work

Uses interview-based data from 28 young adults, an underrepresented demographic, in studies of future oriented behaviours

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319653245
• ISBN13: 9783319653242
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"