Power and Everyday Practices, Second Edition

Deborah Brock, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby , Mark P. Thomas

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English

University of Toronto Press
19 August 2019

Popular culture; Social issues & processes; Social mobility; Popular beliefs & controversial knowledge; Social groups

This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By ""unpacking the centre"" students are encouraged to turn their social worlds inside out and explore alternatives to the dominant social order.

The text is divided into three parts. In Part One students learn how to use theory and methodology, which are blended seamlessly throughout the text. It shows how to position Michel Foucault as a companion to theorists such as Karl Marx and Stuart Hall, while signaling the importance of non-western and Indigenous knowledges, experiences, and rights. In Part Two, students explore

and challenge

normativity; the normal body, heterosexuality, whiteness, the two-gender system, aging, and the under-side of citizenship. In Part Three, shorter chapters critique everyday practices such as thinking scientifically, practicing self-help, going shopping, managing money, buying coffee, being a tourist, and marginalizing Indigeneity. Each chapter includes intriguing exercises, study questions, and key terms that link to the volume's comprehensive glossary. Instructors are provided PowerPoint slides, test banks, and multimodal supplementary resources that make the book adaptable to blended and online learning environments.

Essay-style lectures are also available to accompany the textbook.

Edited by: Deborah Brock, Aryn Martin, Rebecca Raby, Mark P. Thomas
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Edition: 2nd edition
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 188mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9781487588229
ISBN 10: 1487588224
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 19 August 2019
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Deborah Brock is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Aryn Martin is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Rebecca Raby is a professor in the Department of Child and Youth Studies at Brock University. Mark P. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Reviews for Power and Everyday Practices, Second Edition

""The second edition of Power and Everyday Practices is a crucial addition to writing on everyday life and social power in the best tradition of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination. It provides crucial tools for developing critical thinking skills and for reversing the gaze so that we centre our critical analysis not on the oppressed as social problems but instead on the social organization of power in the centre, including normality, whiteness, settler colonialism, heterosexuality, and more. This book covers diverse terrains of struggle and is a crucial text not only for students in the classroom but also for activists in their communities."" --Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire, co-author of The Canadian War on Queers, and professor emeritus, Department of Sociology, Laurentian University ""This book makes evident the value of the sociological imagination in a world that is both banal and tumultuous. Power and Everyday Practices is an exceptionally coherent, engaging collection that invites students to take up key conceptual tools for making sense of and intervening in the power relations that shape their identities and their experiences. It offers a sociology that is not just about but for everyday life."" --Mary Louise Adams, Department of Sociology, Queen's University