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Having grown up in a hyperconnected world, millennials are pressured by a lingering feeling that no matter their achievements, they can always do more. Conventional wisdom suggests that individuals should create and maintain their "personal brands" and continuously improve themselves, so that they can compete in a world that favors the most entrepreneurial and networked. Exacerbating these pressures are endless millennial success stories and "best-of" lists, educational systems that increasingly view their primary roles as creating "adaptable" and "skilled" workers, and a growing belief that in order to succeed, individuals must position themselves strategically in a rapidly changing world. But these trends only promote anxiety and psychological fatigue, hindering the cultivation of a long view in lives and careers. Individuals are drawn away from themselves, losing the spaces for solitude that are necessary for honest selfunderstanding. In "The Plight of Potential", Emerson Csorba, blending scholarly research with first-hand experience based on his work on intergenerational engagement, discusses how millennials can recapture a sense of control in their lives through time and space for solitude. This requires that individuals sometimes resist pressures to constantly connect and share, and in place of this embrace their limitedness despite society's emphasis on growth and potential.

Loneliness. --- Generation Y. --- Echo boomers --- Echo generation --- Generation M --- Generation Why? --- Millennial generation --- Millennials (Generation Y) --- Net generation --- Newmils --- Thatcher's children (Generation Y) --- Generations --- Population --- Social isolation --- Suffering --- Solitude

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This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of the Japanese community in Kona. The people there have survived much turmoil, including harsh treatment on the sugar plantations, economic instability, Pearl Harbor and racial stigma, and ethnic and religious identity crises. Despite these challenges, the pillars of the Japanese coffee community have remained stable.

Isolation (Philosophy) --- Alienation (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Ethnology-Asia. --- Historical sociology. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Social Structure, Social Inequality. --- Asian Culture. --- Historical Sociology. --- Anthropology --- History --- Sociology --- Culture. --- Social structure. --- Social inequality. --- Ethnology—Asia. --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Political science --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Organization, Social --- Social organization --- Social institutions --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Equality.

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This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by directing attention to the dynamic interaction between the opportunity structures available to the poor and the social relations of power in which they are embedded. He analyses these intersections as 'political spaces' which both enable and constrain popular practices. Through examination of the 'political spaces' available to the poor in four different localities, Roy outlines a new analytic framework to understanding poor people's politics. Based on these observations, the book makes a strong case for an approach to democracy that appreciates people's ambivalences towards democracy. Roy urges researchers of democracy to step beyond either enthusiastic narratives - the inevitability of democracy or apocalyptic accounts of democracy's impending death.

Poor --- Democracy --- Marginality, Social --- Political participation --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Persons --- Social classes --- Poverty --- Political activity --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Economic conditions

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'Social Poverty' draws on 192 interviews with young, low-income, unmarried parents to investigate the concept of social poverty, using the setting of a government-funded relationship education program.

E-books --- Poor --- Poverty --- Low-income parents --- Poor families --- People with social disabilities --- Social capital (Sociology) --- Social conditions. --- Psychological aspects. --- Building Strong Families. --- Family Expectations. --- communication. --- deinstitutionalization. --- education. --- employment. --- loneliness. --- parenthood. --- partnership. --- relationship education. --- relationship skills. --- role theory. --- role transitions. --- romantic relationships. --- social capital. --- social isolation. --- transition to adulthood.

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This fascinating book provides a detailed national picture of poverty and social exclusion. Chapters consider a range of dimensions of exclusion and explores relationships between these in the first truly multi-dimensional analysis.

Poverty --- Marginality, Social --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Destitution --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Poor --- Subsistence economy --- Social aspects. --- Marginality, Social. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Poverty & Homelessness. --- Public Policy --- Social Services & Welfare. --- Social Security. --- Social aspects --- Great Britain.