Multiple Normalities - Making Sense of Ways of Living

Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.

List of contents

Introduction: Normality as a Sociological Concept PART I: TOWARDS A SOCIOLOGY OF NORMALITY 1. How Normality Became the Norm 2. Explaining Normality in Making PART II: REPRESENTATIONS OF NORMALITY IN LITERATURE 3. Literature as an Aid in Understanding Social 4. The Transgression of Solid Normality: The Novels of the 1950s and 1960s 5. The Transfiguration of Normality: The Novels of the 1990s and 2000s PART III: MAKING SENSE OF NORMALITY 6. Similarities Between the Two Periods' Images of Normality 7. Differences Between the Two Periods' Images of Normality Conclusion: The Mystery of Normality

About the author

Barbara A. Misztal is Professor of Sociology at Leicester University, UK. She is the author of The Challenges of Vulnerability (2011), Public Intellectuals and the Public Good (2007), Social Theories of Remembering (2003), Informality, Social Theory and Contemporary Practice (2000), and Trust in Modern Society (1996).

Summary

Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.

Product details

• Authors: B Misztal, B. Misztal, Barbara A. Misztal
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2015
• EAN: 9780230336957
• ISBN: 978-0-230-33695-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; B, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Society & culture: general, Media and Communication, Sociology, general, Social sciences—Philosophy, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Culture—Study and teaching, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Cultural and Media Studies, general, European Literature, British literature, British and Irish Literature