Making the Familiar Strange

Sociology Contra Reification

By:

Ryan Gunderson

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Hardback

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.

Author Biography:

Ryan Gunderson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Gerontology at Miami University, USA, and the co-author of Climate Change Solutions: Beyond the Capital-Climate Contradiction.

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2020

Author

Ryan Gunderson

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

132

Series

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory

ISBN-13

9780367894429

Product ID

33403750

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