"What does it mean when a life is changed through the serendipity of a chance encounter? How is it that someone can feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a chance encounter with a smell or a texture or a song? In each...

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1. Verfasser:	Mason, Jennifer 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Malden, MA Polity [2018]
Schlagworte:	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General / bisacsh Senses and sensation Interpersonal relations SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Verwandtschaft Gefühl Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
Zusammenfassung:	"What does it mean when a life is changed through the serendipity of a chance encounter? How is it that someone can feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a chance encounter with a smell or a texture or a song? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving forces, flows, energies and atmospherics that conventional sociological approaches can find hard to grasp, but that are important nonetheless. In this innovative book Jennifer Mason argues that these are affinities - potent charges and charismatically lively connections in our relationalities, that rise up and matter in some way and that enchant the everyday. She suggests that exploring affinities opens up new possibilities for conceptualizing the experience of living in the world, which she names the socio-atmospherics of everyday life. The book invites the reader to embrace possibilities and themes that may seem outside the usual range of sociology, and to engage in a more open, attentive, inventive and poetic sociological sensibility"...
Beschreibung:	Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:	xii, 222 Seiten
ISBN:	9780745664637 9780745664644