Making the Familiar Strange: Sociology Contra Reification

by Ryan Gunderson

Book Overview

This book examines the meaning and implications of the sociological maxim, 'make the familiar strange'. Addressing the methodological questions of why and how sociologists should make the familiar strange, what it means to 'make the familiar strange', and how this approach benefits sociological research and theory, it draws on four central concepts: reification, familiarity, strangeness, and defamiliarization. Through a typology of the notoriously...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367552809
• ISBN13: 9780367552800
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"