Zerubavel, Eviatar

Taken for Granted

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ISBN 13:: 9780691177366
author:: Zerubavel, Eviatar
format:: HardBack
publisher:: Princeton University Press
language:: English
Publication Year:: 2018
Pages:: 160
Dimensions:: 21.84 x 14.48 x 2.03 centimetres
Genre:: 21.84 x 14.48 x 2.03 centimetres, Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Sociology,
Condition:: New
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The Remarkable Power of the Unremarkable By Eviatar Zerubavel Hardcover, 160 pages, published 2018. Our language choices often reflect and reinforce dominant cultural norms. Words like "openly gay" but not "openly straight", or terms like "male nurse" and "working mom", reveal subtle assumptions about identity, social status, and more. Eviatar Zerubavel explores how the words we use every day, without even realizing it, provide clues about what many of us take for granted. By marking certain categories as special or noteworthy, we implicitly assume that others are ordinary by default. This tacit normalizing helps maintain cultural dominance, including the power to dictate what is considered normal. Zerubavel's insightful book draws attention to these implicit assumptions and unsettles our notion of normality in the process.

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