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Self-help books on avoiding time shortage (2005)
| Venue: | Time & Society |
| Citations: | 1 - 0 self |
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@ARTICLE{Larsson05self-helpbooks,
author = {Jörgen Larsson and Christer Sanne},
title = {Self-help books on avoiding time shortage},
journal = {Time & Society},
year = {2005},
pages = {313--330}
}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT. Self-help books are tokens of our reflexive individual-ized society. The widespread experience of too high a pace in daily life and too little time for recovery and for social relations have resulted in books focusing on avoiding time shortage. In our analysis of the advice in such books we found time-management categories such as streamlining activities and buying services. Other identified categories focus on life-management strategies such as setting limits to time-consuming aspirations. Questioning personal aspirations in areas such as work and consumption appears to be an adequate way of avoiding time shortage and increasing one’s quality of life but this is also a challenging task due to the importance most people attach to these areas for identity creation and social acceptance. KEY WORDS • life management • self-help books • time management • time pressure • time use • work–life balance
Keyphrases
time shortage self-help book social relation widespread experience identified category reflexive individual-ized society time-management category buying service social acceptance life-management strategy time-consuming aspiration daily life personal aspiration identity creation challenging task adequate way little time
