Comfort, Cleanliness and Convenience: The Social Organization of Normality

摘要: Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together sociology consumption technology to investigate evolution changes, as well social meaning practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances clothes play a crucial role in our lives, not many us question exactly how why we perform so daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning washing are simply accepted part normal, everyday clearly this was always case. When did shower become de rigueur? What effect has air conditioning had on siesta at one time an integral Mediterranean life culture? interrogates supposed normality draws disturbing conclusions. There is clear evidence supporting view that routine controlled by conceptions profoundly shaped cultural economic forces. Shove maintains habits just changing, changing ways imply escalating standardizing patterns consumption. shrewd engrossing analysis shows far meanings eluded us.