Hidden in Plain Sight - The Social Structure of Irrelevance

Zusatztext full of interesting arguments and examples...Zerubavel's excellent book encourages us to look beyond what is shown and made visable Informationen zum Autor Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and author of Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community, and The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life. Klappentext Drawing on fascinating examples from the art world! optical illusions! and all walks of life! Eviatar Zerubavel investigates how what we notice or ignore varies across cultures and throughout history and how power structures attention. Zusammenfassung Drawing on fascinating examples from the art world, optical illusions, and all walks of life, Eviatar Zerubavel investigates how what we notice or ignore varies across cultures and throughout history and how power structures attention. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Noticing and Ignoring; 2. Figure and Background; 3. Searching and Hiding; 4. The Social Organization of Attention; 5. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: Eviatar Zerubavel, Eviatar (Board of Governors Professor o Zerubavel, Zerubavel Eviatar
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780199366606
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936660-6
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology