Affinities - Potent Connections in Personal Life (Paperback)

What does it mean when a life is changed through the serendipity of a chance encounter? How is it that someone can feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a chance encounter with a smell or a texture or a song? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless. In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities potent charges and charismatically lively connections in our relationalities, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world, which she names the socio-atmospherics of everyday life. The book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range of sociology, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility.

General

Imprint:	Polity Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2017
Authors:	J. Mason
Dimensions:	228 x 161 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-7456-6464-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
LSN:	0-7456-6464-4
Barcode:	9780745664644

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