The Fine Line
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Eviatar Zerubavel argues that most of the distinctions we make in our daily lives and in our culture are social constructs. He questions the notion that a clear line can be drawn to separate one time... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226981592
ISBN13:9780226981598
Release Date:October 1993
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:224 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I enjoyed reading this book. It is about the everyday distinctions we make in our life. Zerubavel talks about how we always arrange things and how we become dependent of this order. He shows that our whole world is divided by our mind into islands. that is because we can't understand the world as a whole without dividing it into smaller pieces. Also he talks about the three types of minds: rigid mind, fluid mind and flexible mind. In rigid mind he talks about how the rigid mind can't accept new things and different things in his life. I guess this is the problem of many people in our world people who can't adjust easily to different life conditions and to different people from themselves. We always tend to create our small groups of people who share the same ideas and the same ways of life. For this people is impossible to accept a different kind of life and different ways of life. It is due to our rigidity that we had wars in the past and we still have today. It is due to our rigidity that there is still so much intolerance in our world. There are people who still make distinctions between black and white people, between men and women and so on. Thank you
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