Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032550864 ISBN 13: 9781032550862

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones.

Concerned with the structures of cultural invisibility, unconscious rules of irrelevance, automatic frames of meaning, and collective attention patterns, it brings together scholarship spanning sociology, anthropology, and social psychology, to cover various aspects of humdrum, unglamorous, nondescript, nothing-to-write-at-home-about social phenomena, developing the key assumptions, underpinnings, and implications of this field of study.

As comprehensive analysis of unremarked features of our social existence, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and the sociology of everyday life.

About this title

About the Author

Carmelo Lombardo is Full Professor of Sociology at Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy.

Lorenzo Sabetta is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032550864
• ISBN 13: 9781032550862
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190
• Editor: Lombardo Carmelo, Sabetta Lorenzo