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Changing Attitudes to Work and Life Styles
Author(s) -
Rosow Jerome M.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841118001700306
Subject(s) - identity (music) , everyday life , work (physics) , social psychology , psychology , human life , aesthetics , sociology , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , mechanical engineering , humanity , engineering
Understanding human behaviour is our everyday job. But it continues to puzzle and confound us. Possibly because we are only human ourselves, or possibly because we lose touch with our sense of identity and our ability to understand ourselves. It is presumptuous to seek to explain fully and rationalize the diverse changing attitudes of Western society to work and life styles. Given the limits of time and knowledge, I shall address a selected number of areas in an effort to shed a bit of light on what seems to be going on around us.