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Work, Family, and Leisure - Uncertainty in a Risk Society (Paperback)
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Work, Family, and Leisure - Uncertainty in a Risk Society (Paperback)
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Work, Family, and Leisure explores the plans and aspirations of
twenty-something law and MBA students for work, family, and
leisure. Through in-depth interviews, Robert Orrange captures the
hopes, dreams, anxieties, and fears that these professional-school
students have about their own personal futures. By placing the
study in the context of major late 20th century social
transformations, Orrange illuminates the complexity and uncertainty
of the life planning process in today's risk society. These future
professionals expect to achieve solid success in their careers, but
are wary of the demands and uncertainties associated with the
big-time. However, the men and women also seem to hold asymmetrical
views about equality in marriage, and some of the women envision
that they may end up relying upon friends as a family support
system. In spite of these uncertainties, most of these future
lawyers and business professionals hope to derive satisfaction and
meaning through their families, and they anticipate integrating
leisure time with spouses and children as opposed to colleagues and
clients. Their privatized images of the good life define a life
politics that seemingly eschews commitments to the larger societal
community-a stance that may prove unsustainable in light of the
growing economic risks confronting the middle class today. In the
end, Orrange argues that the professional middle class may have to
emerge from their private havens and champion the cause of a good
society for all if they are to preserve their own cherished way of
life.
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