The meaning of things : domestic symbols and the self /
"The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common...
| Основен автор: | Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. |
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| Други автори: | Rochberg-Halton, Eugene. |
| Формат: | Ръкопис |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1981.
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Съдържание:
- Preface
- Part I: 1. People and things
- 2. What things are for
- Part II: 3. The most cherished objects in the home
- 4. Object relations and the development of the self
- 5. The home as symbolic environment
- 6. Characteristics of happy homes
- Part III: 7. The transactions between persons and things
- 8. Signs of family life
- 9. Meaning and survival
- Appendixes
- Name index
- Subject index