Elephant in the Room - Silence and Denial in Everyday Life

Informationen zum Autor Eviatar Zerubavel is Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His books include The Seven-Day Circle: The History and Meaning of the Week, The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, and Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past. Klappentext A leading sociological analyst of culture takes on the concept of denial, expounding the ways in which people, both as individuals and collectively, consciously refrain from acknowledging things of which they are quite clearly aware/ Zusammenfassung A leading sociological analyst of culture takes on the concept of denial, expounding the ways in which people, both as individuals and collectively, consciously refrain from acknowledging things of which they are quite clearly aware/

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• Authors: Eviatar Zerubavel, Eviatar (Professor of Sociology Zerubavel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2006
• EAN: 9780195187175
• ISBN: 978-0-19-518717-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works