Personal Sociology
Finding Meanings in Everyday Life- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 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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Bibliographic data
- 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
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- 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
- Ch08. Personal and Public Sociology No access
- Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 164
- Index No access Pages 165 - 166
- About the Author No access Pages 167 - 168





