Life Choices: Understanding Dilemmas And Decisions

This book may be viewed as an ?antiguide? to decisionmaking. It rejects mechanical formulas and urges self-reflection and a critique of ideology. Through close readings of fifteen life history interviews, Tod Sloan creates a framework for the interpretation of dilemmas and decisions. Ultimately, we see that a life choice or turning point comprises three phases?dilemma, deliberation, and decision. As each individual recounts a specific instance when a life choice was necessary, the supportin...