图书标签: 社会学 心理 开卷8分钟 社會學 社会心理学 社会 Zerubavel, 英语
发表于2024-11-22
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The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide--is no fairy tale. In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial--the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of silence exist at every level of society, ranging from small groups to large corporations, from personal friendships to politics. Drawing on examples from newspapers and comedy shows to novels, children's stories, and film, the book travels back and forth across different levels of social life, and from everyday moments to large-scale historical events. At its core, The Elephant in the Room helps us understand why we ignore truths that are known to all of us. Zerubavel shows how such conspiracies evolve, illuminating the social pressures that cause people to deny what is right before their eyes. We see how each conspirator's denial is symbiotically complemented by the others', and we learn that silence is usually more intense when there are more people conspiring--and especially when there are significant power differences among them. He concludes by showing that the longer we ignore "elephants," the larger they loom in our minds, as each avoidance triggers an even greater spiral of denial. Social life in families, organizations, communities and even entire nations is full of situations where the emperor has no clothes. The Elephant in the Room illuminates the dynamics behind these situations, revealing why we ignore obvious and alarming realities.
Zerubavel, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University and author of The Seven-Day Circle and other books maneuvers across politics, popular culture and academic literature to uncover sundry forms of silence and connect these within the greater social universe. He demonstrates that silence is a common subject within music and film, and references abound from Paul Simon to John Lennon, Billy Rose's Dumbo to The Secret Live of Dentists. Shifting his focus to politics, Zerubavel analyzes Bill Clinton's impeachment trial, the Catholic Church's child abuse scandal and Bush's response to Hurricane Katrina. However, while not lacking in captivating anecdotes or titillatingly obscure references, the book fails to offer any previously unknown conclusions about silence. Instead, the reader is left with familiar statements: silence can be deadly; silence in individuals breeds silence in the entire group; people tend to be silent about silence. As is obvious from the 60 pages of references (for 85 pages of text), Zerubavel is well-read and marvelously conversant on the subject. Readers looking for groundbreaking scholarship will be disappointed, though the book excels as a socio-historical account of silence's machinations.
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Not very academic
评分易读。看了几页觉得都在说一些有的没的。不太深入。
评分在季风中文版的翻了几页,回来只找到了英文版的。。
评分读完了这本书,遇到此刻国内public health crisis引发的社会事件是如此应景,书里的话一直萦绕耳边:It only takes one person to produce speech, but it requires the cooperation of all to produce silence.
评分立意不错,可惜阐释得很一般。另外,作者是有多爱not to mention和by the same token这两个词组啊,100页的小书里起码双双用过20次。
“致谢”的作用 伊维塔是这样写致谢的: “…… 1999年,我在系里举办的一个全国性学术会议上,做了一个——社会组织中的沉默和否认的报告——算是逐渐成型想法的一个早期总结。。。 该报告引发广泛讨论,但是与会的10多名同时中,只有2人会后和我聊了聊。。。 这件事恰好证...
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评分 评分圖書館書車上的一堆書中,這本書憑借其書名吸引了我。“沉默串謀者”,只看書名,大概知道這是要探討某種社會心理學方面的現象。果不其然。書中提到的思考問題的角度很有趣,參考文獻也可以幫助我們瞭解更多。但是不得不承認,讀完之後,只有選擇性自我麻痹、conspiracy of...
The Elephant in the Room pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024