A Culture of Second Chances - The Promise, Practice, and Price of Starting Over in Everyday Life (Hardcover)

This book examines the iconic presence of second chances in everyday life. David Newman explores its various iterations in popular culture, commercial marketplaces, religion, intimate relationships, education, criminal justice, and human bodies. He analyzes how this concept-as a cultural aspiration, driver of policy, and lived personal experience-has become part and parcel of our individual sense of self and our collective national identity. While the rhetoric of second chances is familiar and ubiquitous, Newman uncovers their costs and constraints, paying particular attention to the importance of judgments of deservedness. Informed by an array of data sources including personal interviews, mission statements of nonprofit recovery agencies, images in popular culture, stories from the news, plot summaries of novels, and scriptural texts, Newman frames the second chance experience as the quintessential cultural paradox: a concept that simultaneously represents the pinnacle of our shared hopes for renewal and our deepest suspicions about the intransigence of human nature.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2019
Authors:	David M. Newman
Dimensions:	229 x 160 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	324
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-5398-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Promotions
LSN:	1-4985-5398-2
Barcode:	9781498553988

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