Background
Brim, Orville Gilbert was born on April 7, 1923 in Elmira, New York, United States. Son of Orville G(ilbert) and Helen (Whittier) Brim.
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From birth to death, all humans strive for growth and mastery and all of us experience - and must learn to handle - success and failure. How do we do it? Indeed, how do we evaluate our successes and failures when others often withhold information from us? How do we explain to ourselves and to others the reasons for our triumphs and disasters? Most important, how do we learn to "manage" our ambitions and develop strategies for dealing with failure and what for some people is even more difficult: success? Does the pattern change as we age? These are important questions that all of us confront every day. Drawing on the latest psychological and social research and illustrating his argument with arresting real-life examples from every conceivable social setting - school, courtship and marriage, the workplace, sports and games, gambling, and more - the author shows how we adapt to winning and losing in ways that keep us at a level of "just-manageable difficulty", lowering our ambitions when we lose but raising them when we win. In revealing our strategies for handling success and failure, the book demonstrates that our capacity to change across our entire lives is much greater than we used to believe was true. In addition, Brim dispells the myth of the mid-life crisis, calling it more "a useful fiction" than a reality.
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'This is the book I have been waiting for since first reading Volume 2 of the Plowden Report in 1972. In its comprehensive survey and analysis it covers the aims of parent education, its assumptions, structures, techniques, methods, clients, and includes some very useful statistical data, results and evaluation. The authors quote from over 450 sources. Their arguments are carefully qualified and deployed with economy....It is the definitive work on the subject and will last ten years.' -- Adult Education, December 1982
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Brim, Orville Gilbert was born on April 7, 1923 in Elmira, New York, United States. Son of Orville G(ilbert) and Helen (Whittier) Brim.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1947; Master of Arts, Yale University, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, Yale University, 1951.
Instructor sociology, University of Wisconsin, 1952-1953;
assistant professor, University of Wisconsin, 1953-1955;
sociologist, Russell Sage Foundation, New York City, 1955-1964;
assistant secretary, Russell Sage Foundation, 1959-1964;
president, Russell Sage Foundation, 1964-1972;
trustee, Russell Sage Foundation, 1964-1972;
consultant, Russell Sage Foundation, 1972-1974;
president, Foundation for Child Development, 1974-1985;
member core study group, MacArthur Foundation Research Program Successful Aging, 1985-1989;
director, MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Mid Life Development, since 1989;
president, Life Trends, Inc., since 1991;
visiting scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, 1985-1986. Vice chairman American Institute for Research, 1971-1988, chairman 1988-1991. Chairman, Board Of Directors Automation Engineering Laboratory, 1959-1967.
Director Consumer Behavior, Inc., 1957-1961. Chairman environmental panel United States Office Education, 1962-1964. Member drug research board National Academy Sciences, 1964-1966, advising committee on child development, 1971-1976.
Member mental health training committee National Institute of Mental Health, 1959-1962. Chairman commission social science National Science Foundation, 1968-1969. National advisory food and drug council Department of Health, Education and Welfare, 1967-1969.
Chairman of Commission on work and personality in middle years Social Science Research Council, 1972-1979. Trustee Foundation for Child Development, 1972-1985, Center for Creative Leadership, 1972-1978, Mental Health Law Project, 1973-1977,William T. Grant Foundation, 1975-1984, Greenwich Hospital, 1972-1977.
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('This is the book I have been waiting for since first rea...)
Served as First lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Fellow American Sociological Association, American Psychological Association, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Orthopsychiat. Association (president 1974-1975), Eastern Sociological Society (president 1971-1972).
Member Institute Medicine of National Academy Sciences, Society Research Child Development (Distinguished Science Contbns.award, 1985).
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Married Kathleen J. Vigneron, May 30, 1944. Children: John G., Scott W., Margaret L., Sarah M.