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Making the Familiar Strange - Sociology contra reification (Paperback)
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Making the Familiar Strange - Sociology contra reification (Paperback)
Series: Classical and Contemporary Social Theory
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This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological
maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological
questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar
strange, what it means to 'make the familiar strange', and how this
approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on
four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and
defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously ambiguous
concept of reification, the author argues that the primary barrier
to sociological knowledge is our experience of the social world as
fixed and unchangeable. Thus emerges the importance of constituting
the familiar as the strange through a process of social
defamiliarization as well as making this process more methodical by
reflecting on heuristics and patterns of thinking that render
society strange. The first concerted effort to examine an important
feature of the sociological imagination, this volume will appeal to
sociologists of any specialty and theoretical persuasion.
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