Multiple Normalities

1. Introduction: Normality as a Sociological Concept
Barbara A. Misztal

Part I. Towards the Sociology of Normality

2. How Normality Became the Norm
Barbara A. Misztal

3. Explaining Normality in the Making
Barbara A. Misztal

Part II. Representations of Normality in Literature

4. Literature as an Aid in Understanding the Social
Barbara A. Misztal

5. The Transgression of Solid Normality: The Novels of the 1950s and 1960s
Barbara A. Misztal

6. The Transfiguration of Normality: The Novels of the 1990s and 2000s
Barbara A. Misztal

Part III. Making Sense of Normality

7. Similarities between the Two Periods’ Images of Normality
Barbara A. Misztal

8. Differences between the Two Periods’ Images of Normality
Barbara A. Misztal

9. Conclusion: The Mystery of Normality
Barbara A. Misztal

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Sociology, general, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Cultural Studies