Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification

ISBN-13: 9780367894429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 132 str.

Ryan Gunderson

Opis

This book examines the implications of a sociological maxim derived from C. Wright Mills: ‘make the familiar strange’, addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to ‘make the familiar strange’, and how this approach benefits sociological methodology and research.

Spis treści

1. What is Sociology’s Epoché?  2. Modes of Reification  3. Familiarity and/as Strangeness  4. Modes of Social Defamiliarization  5. The Anti-Consolation of Sociology

O autorze

Ryan Gunderson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University, USA, and the co-author of Climate Change Solutions: Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction.