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.
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