Working the Difference

E. Summerson Carr is associate professor of social work and anthropology at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Scripting Addiction: The Politics of Therapeutic Talk and American Sobriety and co-editor of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life.

List of Illustrations
Prologue
Introduction: Motivating Americans, Defusing Difference
Chapter 1 American Democracy (Or, How to Direct Autonomous Subjects)
Chapter 2 American Rhetoric: Therapeutic Performance and the Poetics of Behavior Change
Chapter 3 American Spirit: Presence, Profit, and Professional Reenchantment
Chapter 4 American Science: Faith and the Spirited Economy of Evidence-Based Practice
Chapter 5 American Pragmatism: Learning to Work the Difference (Or, the Life and Death of MI)
Conclusion: Dealing with Difference and the Movement of Method
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Some Notes on the Study of (In)experts
Notes
Works Cited
Index