Bøger af Irene Levin

Hverdagen spiller en afgørende rolle, hvis man vil forstå samfundet i sin helhed og kompleksitet, og de seneste årtier har studier af hverdagen spillet en stadig større rolle inden for sociologien. Hverdagslivet – sociologier om det upåagtede giver en bred introduktion til hverdagslivssociologien som et samlet felt. Bogen beskriver hverdagslivssociologiens ophav i Chicago-skolen og den amerikanske pragmatisme samt udviklingen mod nyere teoridannelser.Der stilles skarpt på marxisme, fænomenologi, eksistentialisme, emotionssociologi og nyere fransk hverdagslivssociologi, der ikke er eksplicit sociologiske skoler, men som på hver deres måde kaster et perspektivrigt blik på hverdagslivet. Endvidere præsenteres centrale hverdagslivstænkere som Goffman, Garfinkel, Sacks og Schegloff. Bogen er rettet mod studerende og undervisere på universiteter og højere læreanstalter.Bogen foreligger her i en gennemrevideret og ajourført udgave med til føjelse af to kapitler: fransk hverdagssociologi og emotionssociologi. Indhold:1.       Chicago-sociologi: Anja Jørgensen2.       Amerikansk pragmatisme: Antje Gimler3.       Symbolsk interaktionisme: Jan Trost, Irene Levin4.       Marxisme, modernitet og utopi: Michael Gardiner5.       Fænomenologisk sociologi: Dan Zahavi og Søren Overgaard6.       Erving Goffmann: Søren Kristiansen7.       Fransk hverdagssociologi: Michael Hviid Jacobsen8.       Eksistentiaistisk sociologi: Joseph A. Kotarba9.       Etnometodologi og det absurdes sociologi: Michael Hviid Jacobsen10.   Samtaleanalyse: Søren Peter Olesen11.   Emotionssociologi: Emma Engdahl og Michael Hviid Jacobsen  Redaktion: Michael Hviid Jacobsen, professor ved Institut for Sociologi og Socialt Arbejde, AAU. Søren Kristiansen, lektor i sociologi ved Institut for Sociologi og Socialt Arbejde, AAU, samt prorektor sammesteds.

Everyday Silence and the Holocaust examines Irene Levin's experiences of her family's unspoken history of the Holocaust and the silence that surrounded their war experiences as non-topics.A central example of what C. Wright Mills considered the core of sociology - the intersection of biography and history - it covers the process by which the author came to understand that notes found in her mother's apartment following her death were not unimportant scribbles, but in fact contained elements of her mother's biographical narrative, recording her parents' escape from occupied Norway to unoccupied Sweden in late 1942. From the mid-1990s, when society began to open up about the atrocities committed against the Jews, so too did the author find that her mother and the wider Jewish population ceased to be silent about their war experiences, and began to talk. Charting the process by which the author traced the family's broader history, this book explores the use of silence, whether in the family or in society more widely, as a powerful analytic tool, and examines how these silences can intertwine. This book provides insight into social processes often viewed through a macro-historical lens by way of analysis of the life of an 'ordinary' Jewish woman, as a survivor.An engaging, grounded study of the biographical method in sociology and the role played by silence, this book will appeal to readers with an interest in the Holocaust and WWII, as well as in social scientific research methods. It will be of use to both undergraduate and postgraduate scholars in the fields of history, social science, psychology, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

What are the catalysts that trigger a change from silence to discussion of the Holocaust? What happens when we talk its invisibility away? How are memories of the Holocaust reflected in different social environments? Who asks questions about memories of the Holocaust, and which answers do they find.