E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, E-Book
ISBN: 978-0-7456-6912-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer,aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across thedisciplines. Drawing from numerous examples of his own past andcurrent work, he shows that ethnographic practice and theethnographic imagination are vital to understanding the creativityand irreducibility of experience in all aspects of social andcultural practice.
Willis argues that ethnography plays a vital role inconstituting 'sensuousness' in textual, methodological, andsubstantive ways, but it can do this only through the deployment ofan associated theoretical imagination which cannot be found simplythere in the field. He presents a bold and incisiveethnographically oriented view of the world, emphasizing the needfor a deep-running social but also aesthetic sensibility. In doingso he brings new insights to the understanding of human action andits dialectical relation to social and symbolic structures. Hemakes original contributions to the understanding of thecontemporary human uses of objects, artefacts and communicativeforms, presenting a new analysis of commodity fetishism as centralto consumption and to the wider social relations of contemporarysocieties. He also utilizes his perspective to further theunderstanding of the contemporary crisis in masculinity and to castnew light on various lived everyday cultures - at school, on thedole, on the street, in the Mall, in front of TV, in the danceclub.
This book will be essential reading for all those involved inplanning or contemplating ethnographic fieldwork and for thoseinterested in the contributions it can make to the social sciencesand humanities.
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Willis argues that ethnography plays a vital role inconstituting 'sensuousness' in textual, methodological, andsubstantive ways, but it can do this only through the deployment ofan associated theoretical imagination which cannot be found simplythere in the field. He presents a bold and incisiveethnographically oriented view of the world, emphasizing the needfor a deep-running social but also aesthetic sensibility. In doingso he brings new insights to the understanding of human action andits dialectical relation to social and symbolic structures. Hemakes original contributions to the understanding of thecontemporary human uses of objects, artefacts and communicativeforms, presenting a new analysis of commodity fetishism as centralto consumption and to the wider social relations of contemporarysocieties. He also utilizes his perspective to further theunderstanding of the contemporary crisis in masculinity and to castnew light on various lived everyday cultures - at school, on thedole, on the street, in the Mall, in front of TV, in the danceclub.
This book will be essential reading for all those involved inplanning or contemplating ethnographic fieldwork and for thoseinterested in the contributions it can make to the social sciencesand humanities.
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Foreword.
Part One: Art in the Everyday.
Chapter 1: Life as Art.
Chapter 2: Form.
Chapter 3: The Social.
Part Two: Ethnography in Post Modernity.
Chapter 4: The Quasi-Modo Commodity.
Chapter 5: Penetrations in the Post Modern World.
Chapter 6: Social Reproduction as Social History.
Chapter 7: The Ethnographic Imagination and 'Whole Ways ofLife'.
Appendix.
Index
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