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Book Synopsis A Primer For Daily Life by : Susan Willis
Download or read book A Primer For Daily Life written by Susan Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-12 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interacting components of everyday life - the weekly supermarket shopping trip, fast food, children's toys - are still largely unremarked by cultural theorists. Grounded in Marxist theory, and guided by feminism, Susan Willis's lucid and entertaining study of the consumer culture broadens the scope of cultural studies to introduce the notion of daily life, with the commodity at its centre. Willis pays particular attention to the influence of commodity fetishism on social relations. Her investigation includes the taken for granted phenomena of modern culture - Barbie dolls, plastic packaging, banana sticker logos and the aerobic workout.A Primer For Daily Life demonstrates that the trivial is crucial for our understanding of capitalist culture, and argues for the necessary development of a critical perspective on daily life.
Book Synopsis Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life by : Matthias R. Mehl
Download or read book Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life written by Matthias R. Mehl and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading authorities, this unique handbook reviews the breadth of current approaches for studying how people think, feel, and behave in everyday environments, rather than in the laboratory. The volume thoroughly describes experience sampling methods, diary methods, physiological measures, and other self-report and non-self-report tools that allow for repeated, real-time measurement in natural settings. Practical guidance is provided to help the reader design a high-quality study, select and implement appropriate methods, and analyze the resulting data using cutting-edge statistical techniques. Applications across a wide range of psychological subfields and research areas are discussed in detail.
Book Synopsis Primer for Living the Good Life by : David W. Yohn
Download or read book Primer for Living the Good Life written by David W. Yohn and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-06-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book speaks to concerns which we must address for the Common Good if we are to survive in a civilized fashion. This book speaks about VIRTUE. For a culture in which each individual appears to be given license to decide what is right and wrong in any situation, this book reaffirms the personal and communal virtues and values which common decency requires. This books speaks about LIVING THE GOOD LIFE. For an instant gratification culture starved for guidance on basic values, this book offers guidance on how to live with personal integrity and social responsiblity. This book speaks about the ART OF DYING. For a culture obsessed with longevity and survival at any and all costs, this book provides insights about how to participate in the natural process of dying with dignity. This book provides a map for the by-ways of daily life. It provides an ethical compass which points true north when emotional skies are clouded over and the steering stars of reason and decency seem obscured. Today is the only "here-now" we are given to start living the good life. This primer may help you take a "step in the right direction."
Book Synopsis Consumption and Everyday Life by : Mark Paterson
Download or read book Consumption and Everyday Life written by Mark Paterson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book introduces key ideas and theorists of consumption in an accessible way. Case studies that describe familiar acts of consumption from areas of everyday life are used to ground relevant debates and ideas.
Book Synopsis Everyday Life Matters by : Cynthia Robin
Download or read book Everyday Life Matters written by Cynthia Robin and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the study of ancient civilizations has often focused on holy temples and royal tombs, a substantial part of the archaeological record remains hidden in the understudied day-to-day lives of artisans, farmers, hunters, and other ordinary people of the ancient world. The various chores of a person's daily life can be quite extraordinary and, even though they may seem trivial, such activities can have a powerful effect on society as a whole. Everyday Life Matters develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable in archaeology, anthropology, and a wide range of disciplines. In this groundbreaking work, Cynthia Robin examines the 2,000-year history (800 B.C.-A.D. 1200) of the ancient farming community of Chan in Belize, explaining why the average person should matter to archaeologists studying larger societal patterns. Robin argues that the impact of what is commonly perceived as habitual or quotidian can be substantial, and a study of a polity without regard to the citizenry is woefully incomplete. She also develops general methods and theories for studying everyday life applicable across a wide range of disciplines. Refocusing attention from the Maya elite and offering critical analysis of daily life interwoven with larger anthropological theories, Robin engages us to consider the larger implications of the seemingly mundane and to rethink the constitution of human societies, everyday life, and ordinary people.
Book Synopsis The Everyday Life Reader by : Ben Highmore
Download or read book The Everyday Life Reader written by Ben Highmore and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life.
Book Synopsis Everyday Life by : Michael Sheringham
Download or read book Everyday Life written by Michael Sheringham and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien, or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of approaches to the everyday. It offers, firstly, a historical perspective, demonstrating the importance of mainstream and dissident Surrealism; the indispensable contribution, over a 20-year period (1960-80), of four major figures: Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, and Georges Perec; and the recent proliferation of works that investigate everyday experience. Secondly, it establishes the framework of philosophical ideas on which discourses on the everyday depend, but which they characteristically subvert. Thirdly, it comprises searching analyses of works in a variety of genres, including fiction, the essay, poetry, theatre, film, photography, and the visual arts, consistently stressing how explorations of the everyday tend to question and combine genres in richly creative ways. By demonstrating the enduring contribution of Perec and others, and exploring the Surrealist inheritance, the book proposes a genealogy for the remarkable upsurge of interest in the everyday since the 1980s. A second main objective is to raise questions about the dimension of experience addressed by artists and thinkers when they invoke the quotidien or related concepts. Does the 'everyday' refer to an objective content defined by particular activities, or is it best thought of in terms of rhythm, repetition, festivity, ordinariness, the generic, the obvious, the given? Are there events or acts that are uniquely 'everyday', or is the quotidien a way of thinking about events and acts in the 'here and now' as opposed to the longer term? What techniques or genres are best suited to conveying the nature of everyday life? The book explores these questions in a comparative spirit, drawing new parallels between the work of numerous writers and artists, including André Breton, Raymond Queneau, Walter Benjamin, Michel Leiris, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Stanley Cavell, Annie Ernaux, Jacques Réda, and Sophie Calle.
Book Synopsis Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life by : Carmen Luke
Download or read book Feminisms and Pedagogies of Everyday Life written by Carmen Luke and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the invisible and/or taken-for-granted places where lessons on gender and identity are translated to girls and women.
Book Synopsis Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life by : Patrick Gamsby
Download or read book Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life written by Patrick Gamsby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life culls together the scattered fragments of Henri Lefebvre’s (1901–1991) unrealized sociology of boredom. In assembling these fragments, sprinkled through Lefebvre’s vast oeuvre, Patrick Gamsby constructs the core elements of Lefebvre’s latent theory of boredom. Themes of time (modernity, everyday), space (urban, suburban), and mass culture (culture industry, industry culture) are explored throughout the book, unveiling a concealed dialectical movement at work with the experience of boredom. In analyzing the dialectic of boredom, Gamsby argues that Lefebvre’s project of a critique of everyday life is key for making sense of the linkages between boredom and everyday life in the modern world.
Book Synopsis Popular Culture and Everyday Life by : Professor Toby Miller
Download or read book Popular Culture and Everyday Life written by Professor Toby Miller and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1998-09-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thisbroad-ranging survey of social and cultural theory issues an audacious challenge to contemporary cultural studies' emphasis on speculation, rather than observation. Toby Miller and Alec McHoul invite the reader to question their participation in both dominant and subcultural practices by providing perspectives on the everyday through ethnography, textual reading, discourse analysis and political economy. Following a summary of key ideas on an everyday practice, such as eating' or talking', each chapter considers the discourses that construct these practices, and concludes with one or more empirical investigations, opening up the possibility of a significant departure in cultural studies. The book ends with an excellent glossary of cultural studies terms.
Book Synopsis Identity and Everyday Life by : Harris M. Berger
Download or read book Identity and Everyday Life written by Harris M. Berger and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical examination of core issues in social and cultural theory.
Book Synopsis Mass Culture and Everyday Life by : Peter Gibian
Download or read book Mass Culture and Everyday Life written by Peter Gibian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass Culture and Everyday Life is a collection of lively work from the small but seminal journal Tabloid. The book offers a clarification of the study of mass culture as it transforms daily life, providing a detailed survey of a wide range of the mass culture phenomena that have defined our everyday lives in recent years: from Hillary's hairdo to tampons, exercise fads and fashion trends; from soaps to opera to rythmn and blues; from horror movies to the interrelation of cats, pigs and mothers in Babe. This volume includes ground-breaking essays on: the boom of talk radio and talk TV; shopping as cinematic spectacle; and how "everyday life" in the university community has become a key battleground in America's "culture wars." The direct, accessible, and refreshingly personal work speak not only to an academic audience but to a wide general readership.
Download or read book Reading the Everyday written by Joe Moran and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ever-growing field of study, this is a major contribution to one of the key areas in cultural studies and cultural theory – the spaces, practices and mythologies of our everyday culture. Drawing on the work of such continental theorists as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Marc Augé and Siegfried Kracauer, Joe Moran explores the concrete sites and routines of everyday life and how they are represented through political discourse, news media, material culture, photography, reality TV shows, CCTV and much more. Unique in his focus of the under-explored, banal aspects of everyday culture, including office life, commuting, traffic and mass housing, Moran re-evaluates conventional notions of everyday life in cultural studies, and shows that analysing such ‘boring’ phenomena can help make sense of cultural and social change. This book is interdisciplinary in its approach and covers many different areas including visual culture, cultural geography, material culture, and cultural history as well as the key areas of cultural studies and sociology. Students from all these subjects will find this clearly written and lively work an invaluable study resource.
Book Synopsis Materially Crafted by : Victoria Hudgins
Download or read book Materially Crafted written by Victoria Hudgins and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents basic and unintimidating techniques for using the most popular crafting materials, including fabric, concrete, paint, clay, thread, and wax to create over thirty projects.
Download or read book The Consent Primer written by Sar Surmick and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consent is part of your life. Every day you interact with dozens, if not hundreds of people and consent plays a role every time. A role you're probably unaware of, at least until something goes wrong.This foundational book explores consent in a new way and will show you the fundamentals of Consent, how to use Consent in your relationships and sex life, and what to do when Consent goes wrong.This highly anticipated and comprehensive guide delves deep to explore the ins and outs of consent in our everyday lives. Regardless of whether you're brand new, or skilled at living a consensual life, this how-to guide is a beacon to set your course for better consent.
Book Synopsis Financialization Of Daily Life by : Randy Martin
Download or read book Financialization Of Daily Life written by Randy Martin and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While trillions of dollars came and went in the stock market boom of the 1990s, the image of "every man and woman a CEO" may turn out to be the era's lasting legacy. Business news, once reserved to specialized papers or sections of the larger news of the day, came to the forefront in cable television and in cultural images of how ordinary people, through the internet and other avenues could not only master their financial life, but move money and equity around with the ease of a financial titan. Financialization of Daily Life looks at how this transformation occurred, and how it is just now becoming a significant, and troubling, aspect of our political and cultural life.Randy Martin takes us through all of the aspects of our "financialization." He examines how the shift in economic life arose not only from changes in culture, but also from new policy priorities that emphasize controlling inflation over promoting growth. He offers a close reading of self-help literature that teaches parents how to rear financially literate children and to instruct adults in the fundamentals of fiscal management. He examines just what a society that treats financial investment as a national past time really looks like, and how that society is transforming the world.In a country rocked by scandals in accounting and banking, the identification ordinary citizens make with, and the risk with which they engage in, the stock market calls into question the very basis of our economic system. Randy Martin spells out in clear terms the implications our financial doings—and undoing—have for the way we organize our lives, and, especially, our money.
Book Synopsis Spinning Real Life by : M. L. Fischer
Download or read book Spinning Real Life written by M. L. Fischer and published by Meade Fischer. This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young, would be author moves to a strange trailer park/Harley repair in northwest California, to write the great American novel. He encounters a group of strange people, has several failed relationships and is a witness to a war between the government and the forests in this satire on modern life. Meet this cast of odd characters.
