Making Sense of Reality: Culture and Perception in Everyday Life by Tia DeNora (

Description: Making Sense of Reality by Tia DeNora An accomplished and thought provoking study of everyday ′reality′ and how we represent, perceive and experience it. With examples throughout, it offers readers an exciting new way of understanding identity, perception and culture. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as real are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media. Examining these practices illuminates reality (or rather our sense of it) as always virtually real, that is simplified and artfully produced. This examination also shows us how the sense of reality that we make is nonetheless real in its consequences.Making Sense of Reality offers students and educators a guide to analysing social life. It develops a performance-based perspective (doing things with) that highlights the ever-revised dimension of realities and links this perspective to a focus on object-relations and an ecological model of culture-in-action. Author Biography Tia DeNora is a professor of sociology at Exeter University where she also directs the SocArts Research Group. She lectures on theory and method, and her research deals mainly with musical matters. She is the author of Music in Everyday Life, Music Asylums, and Making Sense of Reality. Table of Contents Philosophically Informed SociologyIntroducing ′Slow Sociology′Cultural SociologyCulturally Figured RealityOnce More, With Feeling - beyond performanceVariations in Space and TimeReflexivityMultiple Realities and their MaintenanceArtful Practice and Making SenseMaking Sense of Reality: Perception as ActionThe Sense of Reality: here, now, artfully, pragmatically and with consequences Review Making sense of the everyday is not a topic or theme, but a way of looking at things, a sense and sensibility of ordinary life. The diversity of studies and topics that DeNora puts together will enable readers to find a subject close to one′s heart and, at the same time, this heterogeneity brings about a kind of sociology that is not only micro, nor individualistic, but simply human. -- Dafne Muntanyola-Saura, Universitat Autonoma De Barcelona, SpainMaking Sense of Reality articulates what culture is and how it works. It brings substantive concreteness to a concept that is so central it ordinarily defies clear definition. DeNora brings together a wide range of literatures while maintaining a strongly insightful and original voice of her own. -- Mark JacobsThis book amends ordinary cultural sociology by providing it with meaning and sensitivity, and at the end leaves far away behind us the idea of any coherent ensemble of constraints determining us in spite of us, to the benefit of a collective experience able to produce new realities, relations, sites of expression and of living together. Excellent, politically/ethically empowering, and innovative! -- Antoine HennionThe book provides a notably extensive case study based approach to decipher how we make sense of reality in our everyday. DeNora draws upon an eclectic mix of theories, such as socio-music, sociology of health and illness, embodiment, organisational culture and neuropsychology, in support of her argument, claiming that the aim of this slightly magpie tactic is to provide tasting-sized portions of what sociology can show, and what it can do. -- Danna-Mechelle Lewis, The Home Office, UK Review Quote Making sense of the everyday is not a topic or theme, but a way of looking at things, a sense and sensibility of ordinary life. The diversity of studies and topics that DeNora puts together will enable readers to find a subject close to ones heart and, at the same time, this heterogeneity brings about a kind of sociology that is not only micro, nor individualistic, but simply human. Details ISBN1446202003 Author Tia DeNora Year 2014 ISBN-10 1446202003 ISBN-13 9781446202005 Format Paperback Subtitle Culture and Perception in Everyday Life Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Media Book Pages 200 Short Title MAKING SENSE OF REALITY Language English Residence US Birth 1958 Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 302 Publication Date 2014-10-23 UK Release Date 2014-10-23 NZ Release Date 2014-10-23 Edited by James J. Fawcett Affiliation Former Professor of International Commerical Law, University of Nottingham Position Former Professor of International Commerical Law Qualifications Ph.D. Alternative 9781446201992 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Publisher Sage Publications Ltd Imprint Sage Publications Ltd AU Release Date 2014-10-22 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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