Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked

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Carmelo Lombardo (Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy) Lorenzo Sabetta (Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy)

Against the Background of Social Reality

Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked

Carmelo Lombardo (Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy), Lorenzo Sabetta (Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy)

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Routledge
18 December 2024

Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology; Social, group or collective psychology; Cognition & cognitive psychology

Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

The first wide-ranging, organic analysis of the sociology of unmarkedness and taken-for-grantedness, this volume investigates the asymmetry between how we attend to the culturally emphasized features of social reality and ignore the culturally unmarked ones.

Concerned with the structures of cultural invisibility, unconscious rules of irrelevance, automatic frames of meaning, and collective attention patterns, it brings together scholarship spanning sociology, anthropology, and social psychology, to cover various aspects of humdrum, unglamorous, nondescript, nothing-to-write-at-home-about social phenomena, developing the key assumptions, underpinnings, and implications of this field of study.

As comprehensive analysis of unremarked features of our social existence, this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in social theory and the sociology of everyday life.

Edited by: Carmelo Lombardo (Sapienza-University of Rome Italy), Lorenzo Sabetta (Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032550862
ISBN 10: 1032550864
Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 18 December 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Carmelo Lombardo is Full Professor of Sociology at Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy. Lorenzo Sabetta is Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy.

Reviews for Against the Background of Social Reality: Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked

""Sociology suffers from an attention deficit disorder of sorts, focusing on .001% of human action that takes place against a background of the taken for granted which occupies the rest of our experience. Here, in this adventurous volume, Lombardo and Sabetta gather essays that collectively redirect our gaze to the vast unmarked world, bringing opportunity for fresh insight."" Peter Bearman, Columbia University