Wasted Lives
Subtitle: Modernity and Its Outcasts
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: December 1, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9780745631646
Subjects: Social issues; Social theory; Sociology; Social Science; Emigration & Immigration; General; POPULATION POLICY; Political Science / General; REFUGEES; Sociology - Rural
First sentence: Depression is a most unpleasant, harrowing and incapacitating mental condition, but as this and numerous other reports suggest, it is not the only symptom of the malaise that haunts the new generation born into the brave new liquid modern world - whereas it did not seem to affect, at least not to the same extent, their immediate predecessors.