| Making Sense of Reality: Culture and Perception in Everyday Life Contributor(s): Denora, Tia (Author) |
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ISBN: 1446201996 ISBN-13: 9781446201992 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $164.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 302 |
| LCCN: 2014932551 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.11" W x 9.59" (0.96 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Denora, Tia: - 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. |
