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In Personal Sociology: Finding Meanings in Everyday Life, Jeffrey
E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights
and understandings. This book is organized into three parts. Part
One illustrates the intersection of meanings in selected settings
from the author's own life such as barbershop quartet singing,
wrestling, and the effects to his identity of a medical procedure.
Part Two deals with humor and its intersection with social
identities. Using a close analysis of two television sitcoms
separated by thirty years, the author reveals how racial identity
has changed to reflect larger changes in society. Through the
experience of using an indirect approach to teaching sociology to a
group of elderly learners, the intersections of gender, race,
class, and age are explored and explained using core sociological
concepts and theories. Part Three explores embedded meanings in
local social contexts involving social beliefs and activism. The
book concludes with an illustration of engaging in public sociology
through editorial opinion writing.
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