TY - CHAP

T1 - Optimising Patterns of Life Conduct

T2 - Transformations in Relations to the Self, to Others and Caring

AU - King, Vera

AU - Schreiber, Julia

AU - Uhlendorf, Niels

AU - Gerisch, Benigna

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - This chapter present three cases from the Aporias of Perfection in the Accelerated Societies (APAS) study in which patterns of optimised life conduct were adopted, especially by individuals with fitting biographical and psychological dispositions – which themselves have consequences, insofar as they can reinforce patterns of coping and psychological tendencies. Current cultural change in self-concepts, relationship patterns and body practices' (APAS) analysed the consequences for social relationships, self-constructs and the relationship to the body of the increased pressure to optimise and the drive towards perfection in the context of intensified social structures of competition and recognition. Overexertion and exhaustion were seen, first, as the consequence of optimisation and acceleration. An adequate assessment of the limitations and negative consequences, as well as normative considerations, requires a differentiated analysis of the mediating mechanisms between social transformations and demands and individual predispositions and motivations in the context of optimisation.

AB - This chapter present three cases from the Aporias of Perfection in the Accelerated Societies (APAS) study in which patterns of optimised life conduct were adopted, especially by individuals with fitting biographical and psychological dispositions – which themselves have consequences, insofar as they can reinforce patterns of coping and psychological tendencies. Current cultural change in self-concepts, relationship patterns and body practices' (APAS) analysed the consequences for social relationships, self-constructs and the relationship to the body of the increased pressure to optimise and the drive towards perfection in the context of intensified social structures of competition and recognition. Overexertion and exhaustion were seen, first, as the consequence of optimisation and acceleration. An adequate assessment of the limitations and negative consequences, as well as normative considerations, requires a differentiated analysis of the mediating mechanisms between social transformations and demands and individual predispositions and motivations in the context of optimisation.

KW - Sociology

KW - Psychology

KW - Educational science

U2 - 10.4324/9781315179964-5

DO - 10.4324/9781315179964-5

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-1-13-889436-5

SP - 61

EP - 72

BT - ‚Lost in Perfection‘

A2 - King, Vera

A2 - Gerisch, Benigna

A2 - Rosa, Hartmut

PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group

CY - London

ER -