Understanding everyday life
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Understanding everyday life
(Sociology and society)
Blackwell Pub., 2002
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 8 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Written and produced by the Open University
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface Understanding Everyday Life: Introduction Tony Bennett and Diane Watson Chapter 1 - Home and Everyday Life Tony Bennett Chapter 2 - Love is in the Air: Romance and the Everyday Peter Redman Chapter 3 - The Street and Everyday Life? Peter Hamilton Chapter 4 - Everyday Life and the Economy Celia Lury Chapter 5 - "Home from Home": the Pub and Everyday Life Diane Watson Chapter 6 - Community, Everyday and Space Chapter 7 - Accounting for the Everyday Sue Hemmings, Elizabeth B. Silva, Kenneth Thompson Reading in Sociology and everyday life Acknowledgements Index
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