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DETECTING THE SOCIAL IBD

HAZEL JOHNSTONE / MARY EVANS / SARAH MOORE
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
09 / 2018
9783319945194
Inglés

Sinopsis

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world -áand what sociology, as a discipline, can learn from it.Conventional sociological accounts of fiction generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in which it can illustrate, enlarge or help to articulate a particular social theory. Evans,áMoore, and Johnstone suggest a different approach, and demonstrate that by taking a group of detective novels, we can unveil so far unidentified, but crucial, theoretical ideas about what it means to be an individual in the twenty-first century.áMore specifically, the authors argue that detective fiction of the last fortyáyears illuminates the effects of urban isolation and separation, theáinvisibility ofáinstitutional power, financial insecurity, andáthe failure of public authoritiesáto protect people. In doing so, this body of fictionátraces out the fault-lines in our social arrangements, rehearsesáour collective fears, and capturesáa mood of restless disquiet.áBy engaging with detective stories in this way, the book revisitsáideas about the promise and purpose of sociology.âÇï

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