The interviewees are generally keen on family commitments toward their children and parents, which can generate instrumental and social gratification; moreover, the purchase and use of material goods and services for family members aim mainly at fulfilling family commitments rather than the display of social status.
Within its furious action, it delivers surprisingly simplistic gratifications that are no less enervating for the positive feelings that they generate.
Yet, shouldering insurmountable responsibilities and battling to generate resources, sometimes exacerbated by disabling illness, men's experiences were dominated more by pain and anxiety than by joy and gratification.
Female pluck, commonsense and solidarity overcome predictable obstacles, while generating cheap humour and even cheaper emotional gratification.
You get instant gratification".
18 One site stated that 'sexual gratification is directly related to the amount of frictional forces generated' (presumably for male partners during vaginal intercourse) and that such 'frictional forces' could be improved by laser vaginal rejuvenation; 22 G-spot injection was claimed to 'revolutionise many women's sex lives'.
The field has also generated its own theoretical themes, such as propaganda, media uses and gratifications, meaning, agenda-setting, the knowledge gap, the spiral of silence, and selective exposure.
Libido was supposed to consist of a kind of motivational energy internally generated with a certain strength or impetus, having the aim of achieving sexual gratification through interaction with some external object.
Our era does not encourage deferred gratification, with celebrity being bestowed upon the young and wealth being generated by entrepreneurs who retire before their parents do.
They are capable of generating a tidal wave of sentiment that can mobilise Americans, substituting civic duty for selfishness and service to a greater cause for the transient gratification of the appetite.
