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Kenan Professor of Sociology, Dept of Sociology @ UNC Chapel Hill

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What Sustains a Belief in Success Among the Unsuccessful?

I’ve been haunted by the question of what sustains belief in success among the unsuccessful ever since I read Reinhard Bendix’ magisterial book, Work and Authority in Industry. Bendix wrote about the economic ideology that kept millions of people in England, the United States, and other Western read more

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This entry was posted in Creative professionals, Fishing and tagged actor, artist, author, creativity, dancer, failure, film maker, fishing, occupational identity, personal identity, playright, professional, social identity, success, unsuccessful on December 12, 2014 by Howard Aldrich.

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