Research Catalog

Title

The politics of uncertainty : attachment in private and public life / Peter Marris.

Author

Marris, Peter

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Details

Description

ix, 186 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In The Politics of Uncertainty Peter Marris examines one of the most crucial and least studied aspects of social relationships: how we manage uncertainty, from the child's struggle for secure attachment to the competitive strategies of multinational corporations. Using a powerful synthesis of social and psychological theory, he shows how strategies of competition interact with the individual's sense of personal agency to place the heaviest burden of uncertainty on those with the fewest social and economic resources. He argues that these strategies maximize uncertainty for everyone by undermining the reciprocity essential to successful economic and social relationships. At a time when global economic reorganization is undermining security of employment, The Politics of Uncertainty makes a convincing case for strategies of co-operation at both personal and political levels to ensure our economic and social survival in the twenty-first century.

Subject

• Attachment behavior
• Uncertainty
• Control (Psychology)
• Object Attachment
• Power, Psychological
• 77.69 social psychology: other
• Unsicherheit
• Affektive Bindung
• Ungewissheit
• Onzekerheid
• Gehechtheid

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-181) and index.

Contents

Part I : Meaning, attachment and predictability. 1. The uncertainties of everyday life -- 2. Uncertainty and the construction of meaning -- 3. The idea of self -- 4. Attachment -- 5. Attachment and control of uncertainty -- 6. Meanings in public and private -- Part II : Controlling uncertainty. 7. Controlling relationships -- 8. Self-defeating defences against uncertainty -- 9. Loss and the recovery of meaning -- 10. Planning -- 11. Reciprocity versus competition -- 12. Moral uncertainty.

ISBN

• 0415131715
• 9780415131711
• 0415131723
• 9780415131728

LCCN

95043632

OCLC

• ocm33243976
• 33243976
• SCSB-2089357

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library