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Power and everyday practices – “Introduction: Unpacking the centre.”
Deborah R. Brock
Chapter in Edited Book, 2019
Brock, D., Martin, A., Raby, R., & Thomas, M. P. (2019). Introduction: Unpacking the centre. In D. Brock, A. Martin, R. Raby, & M. P. Thomas (Eds.), Power and everyday practices (2nd ed., pp. 3–15). University of Toronto Press.
This unique and innovative text provides undergraduate students with tools to think sociologically through the lens of everyday life. Normative social organization and taken for granted beliefs and actions are exposed as key mechanisms of power and social inequality in western societies today. By “unpacking the centre” students are encouraged to turn their social worlds inside out and explore alternatives to the dominant social order.