Life advice from below : : the public role of self-help coaches in Germany and China / / by Eric C. Hendriks.
In Life Advice from Below , Eric C. Hendriks offers the first systematic, comparative study of the globalization of American-style self-help culture and the cultural conflicts this creates in different national contexts. The self-help guru is an archetypical American figure associated with individua...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017] |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | International Comparative Social Studies
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (251 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- Cultural Fields in the Public Sphere
- The Persistence of National Regimes
- Global Popular Culture and Self-Help
- Lines of Conflict
- Mapping and Comparing Social Space
- The German Self-Help Field
- Clashing into Germany’s Corporatist Welfare Regime
- The Chinese Self-Help Field
- Coexisting with China’s Institutional Authorities
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.