Understanding Everyday Life by Tony Bennett
By focusing on familiar sites and scenes - the home, the pub, the street - this text introduces students to contemporary debates about the social organization of everyday life. From the private sphere through to work, consumption and the community, it reveals the intricacies of social processes and structures as they affect students' own lives. Using richly-illustrated examples, the authors demonstrate how the perspectives of sociology, cultural studies and feminism can shed new light on aspects of day-to-day social life that are usually taken for granted. At the same time, they place these debates in historical perspective, both by tracing key historical changes in the patterns of everyday life and by looking at the history of social thought about the everyday. The authors consider a broad range of theoretical approaches to everyday life and explore these in the light of class, ethnicity, age, gender and sexuality.
Most importantly, the undergraduates for whom the book is intended are given a rollicking good introduction to contemporary sociologyBut undergraduates should not form this book's only readership. There is much for the general reader with a thrist to explore and understand 'the everyday'. Meanwhile more advanced readers, some of whom might routinely use concepts like 'the everyday' and 'everyday life' as useful but vague shorthand, will find here a thorough summary of relevant sociological work.--Sociology
Tony Bennett is Professor of Sociology at The Open University. His previous publications include 'Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures' (with Michael Emmison and John Frow) (1999), 'Culture: A Reformer's Science' (1998) and 'The Birth of the Museum' (1995).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631233084 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631233083 |
| Title | Understanding Everyday Life |
| Author | Tony Bennett |
| Series | Sociology And Society Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-03-21 |
| Number of pages | 360 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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