The Fabric of Your Life de Ph. D. A. L. Sinikka Dixon

The Fabric of Your Life

Ph. D. A. L. Sinikka Dixon

Today we live in an information society, constantly bombarded by new scientific discoveries in every field. What we thought to be "common sense" is changing and we tend to look to the multiple professional organizations for guidelines. This book focuses on our every day relationships within the five life cycles of age, family, education, work and leisure. It puts you - the reader - in the center of your life. Each chapter gives you a backdrop to become your own "case study" with thought questions to create awareness of the impact your life has on others and how in turn their lives inspire and constrain you. Separate chapters are dedicated to the impact of health, choice of life values, self-esteem and family relocation as constraints on your life cycle involvements. The goal in writing this book has been to empower the reader to view his or her life in a fresh, new personal perspective.

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Dr. Sinikka Dixon is a multi-cultural, multi-lingual Sociologist with a passion for the human story. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of California in 1982, with specializations in Urban Sociology, Social Inequality, and Social Psychology. Dr. Dixon is fascinated by multiculturalism. Living in and travelling in many countries she has experienced first-hand, cultures in Africa, Australia, Brazil, Europe, Indonesia, North and Central America, Philippines, and Suriname. As a member of Canadian, American and International Sociological Associations, she has presented papers at many Sociological Congresses. Her language abilities give her direct access to original sources in Finnish, Swedish, German, Dutch and English. Born in 1936 in Turku, Finland, into a geographically mobile family taught her early the meaning of inequality and cultural dislocation. She became a participant observer of social relationships, seeking to understand why people treat each other the way they do on the basis of age, gender, culture, race and religion. Having a first career in secretarial science and motherhood, as many of her generation did, she re-entered the "education life cycle," majoring in sociology and had a long academic teaching career. She retired as Professor Emerita of Sociology in 2008, with her husband to Prince Edward Island, Canada.