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Personal Sociology
Finding Meanings in Everyday Life
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2022
Summary
In Personal Sociology: Finding Meanings in Everyday Life, Jeffrey E. Nash transforms everyday experiences into sociological insights and understandings. This book has 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 how a medical procedure changed his identity. Part Two deals with humor and its intersection with social identities. An analysis of two television sitcoms separated by thirty years reveals how racial identity reflects larger changes in society. 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 through sociological concepts and theories. Part Three explores embedded meanings in local social contexts involving social beliefs and activism. The book concludes by engaging in public sociology through editorial opinion writing.
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Edition
1/2022
Copyright Year
2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-5158-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-5159-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
168
Product Type
Monograph
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Figures and Tables No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Ch01. Ringing the Chord No access
Ch02. Wimps Need Not Apply No access
Ch03. Penile Implants No access
Ch04. Archie, Meet Larry No access
Ch05. Laughter and Humor in the Classroom and Beyond No access
Ch06. Lives Worth Saving No access
Ch07. A Coal-Fired Plant Is Born (with Dina Nash) No access
