Taken for Granted (eBook)

The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable

Eviatar Zerubavel (Autor)

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2018
160 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8946-4 (ISBN)

Infos

How the words we use-and don't use-reinforce dominant cultural normsWhy is the term "e;openly gay"e; so widely used but "e;openly straight"e; is not? What are the unspoken assumptions behind terms like "e;male nurse,"e; "e;working mom,"e; and "e;white trash"e;? Offering a revealing and provocative look at the word choices we make every day without even realizing it, Taken for Granted exposes the subtly encoded ways we talk about race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, social status, and more.In this engaging and insightful book, Eviatar Zerubavel describes how the words we use--such as when we mark "e;the best female basketball player"e; but leave her male counterpart unmarked-provide telling clues about the things many of us take for granted. By marking "e;women's history"e; or "e;Black History Month,"e; we are also reinforcing the apparent normality of the history of white men. When we mark something as being special or somehow noticeable, that which goes unmarked-such as maleness, whiteness, straightness, and able-bodiedness-is assumed to be ordinary by default. Zerubavel shows how this tacit normalizing of certain identities, practices, and ideas helps to maintain their cultural dominance-including the power to dictate what others take for granted.A little book about a very big idea, Taken for Granted draws our attention to what we implicitly assume to be normal-and in the process unsettles the very notion of normality.

Autor

Eviatar Zerubavel is Board of Governors and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. His many books include Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology, The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life, and Ancestors and Relatives: Genealogy, Identity, and Community. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.4.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 7 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Adjective • African Americans • Allan Horwitz • Alterity • Alternative medicine • americans • Analog watch • Andrew Cuomo • asymmetry • Averageness • Backslash • Bisexuality • Black lives matter • black people • catchphrase • Centrality • Clothing • conversion therapy • Costa Ricans • Cyberterrorism • defamation • Disability • Distinctive feature • Domestic violence • Epithet • etymology • Exclusion • femininity • Finding • First Responder • Gadjo (non-Romani) • gender neutrality • Gender Studies • Heteronormativity • heterosexuality • Homosexuality • Identity (social science) • Illustration • Immigration Law • Inseparability • Intersubjectivity • invisibility • Jewish nose • Jews • John Levi Martin • Judith Butler • Kashrut • Lesbian • Linguistic System • love marriage • Marital rape (United States law) • Markedness • marriage • Mental disorder • monogamy • narrative • national security • newspaper • Norm (social) • person of color • Philosopher • Phoneme • Phrase • plaintiff • Politician • Premarital sex • Prude • pundit • Race (human categorization) • Racism • reverse discrimination • reverse racism • Romani People • Semantics • Severity (video game) • sexual ethics • Sexual orientation • Social constructionism • Social Nature • Social Philosophy • Social reality • Social Status • spouse • Standardization • Statistic • Straight pride • supermarket • terence • This Country • To this Day • Tradition • typewriter • Underpinning • Unemployment • Vegetarianism • Viviana Zelizer • vocabulary • whiteness • white people • White pride
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8946-4 / 1400889464
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8946-4 / 9781400889464