TY - BOOK ID - 78343632 TI - Disrupted Lives : How People Create Meaning in a Chaotic World PY - 1999 SN - 0585105952 0520919246 9780520919242 9780585105956 9780520209145 0520209141 0520209133 0520209141 PB - Berkeley, California : University of California Press, DB - UniCat KW - Life change events KW - Adjustment (Psychology) KW - Adaptation, Psychological KW - Life Change Events KW - Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms KW - Life Style KW - Psychology, Social KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Psychology KW - Social Sciences KW - Psychology, Perceptual KW - Social Psychology KW - Perceptual Psychology KW - Life Style Induced Illness KW - Lifestyle KW - Lifestyle Factors KW - Factor, Lifestyle KW - Life Styles KW - Lifestyle Factor KW - Lifestyles KW - Quality of Life KW - Social Environment KW - Behavior And Behavior Mechanism KW - Analysis, Event History KW - Event History Analysis KW - Life Experiences KW - Analyses, Event History KW - Event History Analyses KW - Event, Life Change KW - Events, Life Change KW - Experience, Life KW - Experiences, Life KW - Life Change Event KW - Life Experience KW - Stress, Psychological KW - Adaptation, Psychologic KW - Adjustment KW - Coping Skills KW - Psychological Adaptation KW - Behavior, Adaptive KW - Coping Behavior KW - Adaptive Behavior KW - Adaptive Behaviors KW - Behavior, Coping KW - Behaviors, Adaptive KW - Behaviors, Coping KW - Coping Behaviors KW - Coping Skill KW - Psychologic Adaptation KW - Skill, Coping KW - Skills, Coping KW - Allostasis KW - Resilience, Psychological KW - Accommodation (Psychology) KW - Adaptation (Psychology) KW - Adapting behavior KW - Adaptive behavior KW - Coping behavior KW - Maladjustment (Psychology) KW - Personality KW - Adaptability (Psychology) KW - #SBIB:39A9 KW - Medische antropologie / gezondheid / handicaps KW - Factors, Psychological KW - Psychological Factors KW - Psychological Side Effects KW - Psychologists KW - Psychosocial Factors KW - Side Effects, Psychological KW - Factor, Psychological KW - Factor, Psychosocial KW - Factors, Psychosocial KW - Psychological Factor KW - Psychological Side Effect KW - Psychologist KW - Psychosocial Factor KW - Side Effect, Psychological KW - american culture. KW - american society. KW - anthropology. KW - applied psychology. KW - bodily distress. KW - continuity. KW - cultural documents. KW - cultural themes. KW - dealing with the unexpected. KW - discontinuity. KW - disordered body. KW - disorders. KW - disrupted life. KW - disruption. KW - limbo. KW - meaning of disruption. KW - meaning of life. KW - medical anthropology. KW - metaphor. KW - metaphors of transformation. KW - narrative. KW - normalcy. KW - order and chaos. KW - personal identity. KW - personal responsibility. KW - social sciences. KW - united states of america. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78343632 AB - Our lives are full of disruptions, from the minor--a flat tire, an unexpected phone call--to the fateful--a diagnosis of infertility, an illness, the death of a loved one. In the first book to examine disruption in American life from a cultural rather than a psychological perspective, Gay Becker follows hundreds of people to find out what they do after something unexpected occurs. Starting with bodily distress, she shows how individuals recount experiences of disruption metaphorically, drawing on important cultural themes to help them reestablish order and continuity in their lives. Through vivid and poignant stories of people from different walks of life who experience different types of disruptions, Becker examines how people rework their ideas about themselves and their worlds, from the meaning of disruption to the meaning of life itself. Becker maintains that to understand disruption, we must also understand cultural definitions of normalcy. She questions what is normal for a family, for health, for womanhood and manhood, and for growing older. In the United States, where life is expected to be orderly and predictable, disruptions are particularly unsettling, she contends. And, while continuity in life is an illusion, it is an effective one because it organizes people's plans and expectations. Becker's phenomenological approach yields a rich, compelling, and entirely original narrative. Disrupted Lives acknowledges the central place of discontinuity in our existence at the same time as it breaks new ground in understanding the cultural dynamics that underpin life in the United States. FROM THE BOOK:"The doctor was blunt. He does not mince words. He did a [semen] analysis and he came back and said, 'This is devastatingly poor.' I didn't expect to hear that. It had never occurred to me. It was such a shock to my sense of self and to all these preconceptions of my manliness and virility and all of that. That was a very, very devastating moment and I was dumbfounded. . . . In that moment it totally changed the way that I thought of myself.". ER -