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- 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
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty (CRSTRU)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book presents the findings of a recent interview-based study of how 28 young adults living in Melbourne, Australia viewed and related to both the personal and societal future. In so doing it addresses issues such as how individuals imagine the future of their society, and whether this has any bearing on the way in which they perceive and relate to their own, personal future. The respondents’ future imaginings are also considered in relation to influential theoretical accounts that have sought to diagnose the character of contemporary society, and with it the future horizon. Drawing on this discussion, some alternative ways of conceptualising micro experiences of future-oriented thinking are proposed, and the role that hope can play in this process is addressed. This book will appeal to readers who are interested in the sociology of risk and uncertainty, time, and youth. Â
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Julia Cook
About the author
Julia Cook is a Research Fellow in the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests and publications are concerned with the sociology of youth, time, risk and uncertainty, and religion.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Imagined Futures
Book Subtitle: Hope, Risk and Uncertainty
Authors: Julia Cook
Series Title: Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65325-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65324-2Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88000-6Published: 25 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65325-9Published: 07 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2523-7268
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7276
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 141
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Environmental Sociology, Emotion