Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? (eBook)
208 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-03643-8 (ISBN)
1. This book offers an unprecedented perspective on a crucial social and psychological issue in Western countries, where, on average 18% of adolescents and young people say they have self-harmed at least once in their life.
2. While this work is a rigorous academic study, it is written in language comprehensible for any reader. It takes the unique perspective that the issues behind self-harm are more socially driven, aimed at maintaining order within social settings and place.
3. The book keeps readers engaged by making good use of strong personal stories. The text alternates between short and effective analytical sections and long presentation of individual stories and cases, relating excerpts from interviews and observations.
More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives? In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order-to calm down, or to avoid "e;going haywire"e; or "e;breaking everything."e; More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.
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Baptiste Brossard, a French sociologist, is Lecturer at the Australian National University.
Introduction
Part One: A Practice of Self-Control
Introduction
1. The First Time
2. Towards a Feeling of Dependence
3. Talking about Self-Injury?
4. Quitting
5. Self-Injury on a Regular Basis
6. On the Manners to Self-Injure
Conclusion: Maintaining the Order
Part Two: A Social Positioning Practice
Introduction
7. The Staging of Discretion
8. At the Origin of "Relational Problems"
9. The Existential Crisis
10. What Gender Represents
11. What Some Events Imply
Conclusion: A Relational Map of Self-Injury
Conclusion: A Self-Controlled Youth
Endnotes
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 14.6.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Bloomington |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 140 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | academic research • adolescents • Anthropology • bodily harm • destructive adolescent behavior • French • Harm • Health • Health Care • hurt • Injury • Kids • kids, teens, adolescents, young people • Mental Health • Monograph • nonsuicidal • Self-Harm • self-harm, self-injury, destructive adolescent behavior, mental health, health, health care, young people, sociology, nonsuicidal, anthropology, academic research, monograph, French, translation, harm, hurt, injury, bodily harm • Self-injury • Sociology • Teens • Translation • Young people |
| ISBN-10 | 0-253-03643-7 / 0253036437 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-253-03643-8 / 9780253036438 |
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