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Book Description
The polemical aspects of Mirowsky and Rosss first edition caused a stir both in public health and in sociological circles. The new, second edition traverses the same terrain, though updating, and adds sections on “patterns” and new surveys research. In these pages the authors summarize, synthesize, and elaborate their observations and thoughts from two decades of research. Their views remain, for the most part, firm, and in an age that is still more therapeutic than not, will cause new controversy.
CONTENTS I Introduction 1 Introduction II Researching the Causes of Distress 2 Measuring Psychological Well-Being and Distress 3 Real-World Causes of Real-World Misery III Social Patterns of Distress 4 Basic Patterns 5 New Patterns IV Explaining the Patterns 6 Life Change: An Abandoned Explanation 7 Alienation 8 Authoritarianism and Inequity V Conclusion 9 Why Some People Are More Distressed Than Others 10 Appendix References Index