Multiple Normalities [electronic resource] : Making Sense of Ways of Living /
Misztal, B.author.
Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Introduction: Normality as a Sociological Concept; Part I: Towards the Sociology of Normality; 1 How Normality Became the Norm; 2 Explaining Normality in the Making; Part II: Representations of Normality in Literature; 3 Literature as an Aid in Understanding the Social; 4 The Transgression of Solid Normality: The Novels of the 1950s and 1960s; 5 The Transfiguration of Normality: The Novels of the 1990s and 2000s; Part III: Making Sense of Normality; 6 Similarities between the Two Periods' Images of Normality; 7 Differences between the Two Periods' Images of Normality
Conclusion: The Mystery of NormalityAppendix 1: The Main Literary Prizes; Appendix 2: Novels Published in the 1950s and 1960s; Appendix 3: Novels Published in the 1990s and 2000s; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.
British literature.
Culture.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Cultural studies.
British and Irish Literature.
Sociology of Culture.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Cultural Studies.