Cultural Change and Ordinary Life

by Longhurst, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780335221882
• ISBN10: 0335221882
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

This ground-breaking book offers a new approach to the understanding of everyday life, the media and cultural change. It explores the social pattern of ordinary life in the context of recent theories and accounts of social and cultural change.

Author Biography

Brian Longhurst is Professor of Sociology and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Media and Social Sciences at Salford University, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Concepts and theories of everyday and ordinary life	p. 7
The everyday	p. 8
Ordinary life	p. 12
Music, sound and ordinary life	p. 16
Conclusion	p. 20
Changing ordinary life	p. 22
Globalizing and hybridizing	p. 22
Modernity, fragmentation and personal choice	p. 25
Spectacularizing and performing	p. 28
Enthusing	p. 30
Conclusion	p. 34
Understanding and theorizing cultural change	p. 35
Spectacle, performance and performativity	p. 35
Audience positions	p. 42
Research questions	p. 44
Conclusion	p. 48
Globalizing, hybridizing and localizing: processes of elective belonging	p. 49
Belonging	p. 49
Globalizing	p. 51
Scenes	p. 52
Scene, performing, audiencing and elective belonging	p. 58
Conclusion	p. 61
Imagining, performing and identifying: class, identity and culture	p. 62
Class, culture and identity: a new agenda	p. 63
Inscription, exchange, value and perspective	p. 69
Morality, evaluation and ordinary life	p. 71
Conclusion	p. 73
Distinguishing and connecting 1: capitals and the use of time	p. 74
Time use	p. 75
Social capital in Britain	p. 81
Class and education: economic, cultural and social resources	p. 85
Conclusion	p. 88
Distinguishing and connecting 2: the omnivore thesis	p. 90
The omnivore thesis: early statements and key themes	p. 92
The omnivore thesis: wider applications and development of explanations	p. 97
Cultural taste: qualitative consideration and modes of speech	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 102
Enthusing	p. 104
Processes of reception and sport	p. 105
Theories of fandom	p. 110
Place, space and the extended audience	p. 115
Enthusing: diffusion and the self	p. 117
Conclusions	p. 119
References	p. 125
Index	p. 133
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