Mason, Jennifer
Affinities: Potent Connections in Personal Life
In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities – potent charges and charismatically lively connections in personal life, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant or toxify the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world through what she calls the 'socio-atmospherics of everyday life'. This book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility.
Keywords: personal life; sociology; family; families; relationships; cultural sociology; life course; biography; emotion; nostalgia; social theory, Sociology of Culture, Family Studies General, Gender Studies, Sociology of Culture, Family Studies General, Gender Studies
- Author(s)
- Mason, Jennifer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 256 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781509524303
- Printed ISBN
- 9780745664644