Making Sense of Reality

Culture and Perception in Everyday Life

AvTia DeNora

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as ‘real’ are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always ‘virtually real’, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.

Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (‘doing things with’) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-10-23
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:320 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:200
Upplaga:1
Förlag:SAGE Publications
ISBN:9781446202005

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Tia DeNora is a professor of sociology at Exeter University where she also directs the SocArts Research Group. She lectures on theory and method, and her research deals mainly with musical matters. She is the author of Music in Everyday Life, Music Asylums, and Making Sense of Reality.

Recensioner i media

Making sense of the everyday is not a topic or theme, but a way of looking at things, a sense and sensibility of ordinary life. The diversity of studies and topics that DeNora puts together will enable readers to find a subject close to one′s heart and, at the same time, this heterogeneity brings about a kind of sociology that is not only micro, nor individualistic, but simply human.

Innehållsförteckning

Philosophically Informed SociologyIntroducing ′Slow Sociology′Cultural SociologyCulturally Figured RealityOnce More, With Feeling - beyond performanceVariations in Space and TimeReflexivityMultiple Realities and their MaintenanceArtful Practice and Making SenseMaking Sense of Reality: Perception as ActionThe Sense of Reality: here, now, artfully, pragmatically and with consequences

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