Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification by Gunderson, Ryan
Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification by Gunderson, Ryan

Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification

This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the...
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Author: Ryan Gunderson
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Language: English
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Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification by Gunderson, Ryan

Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification

$228.43
Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification by Gunderson, Ryan

Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification

$228.43
Author: Ryan Gunderson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, '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 research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting the familiar as the strange through a process of social defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to sociologists of any specialty and theoretical persuasion.



Author: Ryan Gunderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 05/30/2022
Pages: 142
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d
ISBN: 9780367552800

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