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Multiple Normalities

Making Sense of Ways of Living

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
  2. Introduction: Normality as a Sociological Concept

  3. Towards the Sociology of Normality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
    2. How Normality Became the Norm

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 23-48
    3. Explaining Normality in the Making

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 49-79
  4. Representations of Normality in Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
    2. Literature as an Aid in Understanding the Social

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 83-104
  5. Making Sense of Normality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161
  6. Conclusion: The Mystery of Normality

    1. Conclusion: The Mystery of Normality

      • Barbara A. Misztal
      Pages 214-221
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 222-249

About this book

Multiple Normalities enhances sociological understandings of normality by illustrating it with the help of British novels. It demonstrates commonalities and differences between the meanings of normality in these two periods, exemplifying the emergence of the multiple normalities and the transformation of ways in which we give meaning to the world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Leicester, UK

    Barbara A. Misztal

About the author

Barbara A. Misztal is Professor of Sociology at Leicester University, UK. She is the author of The Challenges of Vulnerability (2011), Public Intellectuals and the Public Good (2007), Social Theories of Remembering (2003), Informality, Social Theory and Contemporary Practice (2000), and Trust in Modern Society (1996).

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