Demonstrates how individuals use hope as a resource for coping with concerns about the long term future within the context of their everyday lives

Considers how the future has been conceptualised in sociological work

Uses interview-based data from 28 young adults, an underrepresented demographic, in studies of future oriented behaviours

Autorentext

Julia Cook is a Research Fellow in the Youth Research Centre at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research interests and publications are concerned with the sociology of youth, time, risk and uncertainty, and religion.

Inhalt

1. Introduction .- 2. Diagnoses of the Future Horizon .- 3. Strategies for Relating to the Personal and Societal Future .- 4. Discourses of the Long-Term Future .- 5. Future Imaginaries in Theory and Practice .- 6. The Utility of Hope .- 7. Conclusion.