Making Sense of Reality: Culture and Perception in Everyday Life

by Tia DeNora

Book Overview

What is reality and how do we make sense of it in everyday life? Why do some realities seem more real than others, and what of seemingly contradictory and multiple realities? This book considers reality as we represent, perceive and experience it. It suggests that the realities we take as 'real' are the result of real-time, situated practices that draw on and draw together many things - technologies and objects, people, gestures, meanings and media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1446202003
• ISBN13: 9781446202005
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"