Against the Background of Social Reality

List of Contributors List of Tables and Figures 1. What is Done When Nothing Special is Being Done. Social Theory and the Power of the Unmarked Theoretical Outlines 2. Taken for Granted: Semiotic Asymmetry and the Sociocognitive Production of Normality 3. Routines, Rituals and Reflexes: The Powerful Undercurrents in Everyday Life Core Arguments and Epistemological Implications 4. Sociocultural Defaults at Rest and in Motion: Cognitive Sociologies of the Unmarked 5. Nothing Important: Exploring the Personal and Social Meanings of Negative Experience 6. From Background to Default: The Epistemic Role of the Unmarked Variations on the Theme 7. Early Detection's Blind Spots: Attentional Conflict in the Mammography Wars 8. Normalization of the Wrong Normal: Unmarked Futures in the 2015-2016 Refugee Crisis in Poland Conclusive Remarks 9. "Noise or Music? Clutter or Shoe? On Attachment and Foreground Producing Strategies 10. The Unmarked and the Methodology of Social Research 11. Remarks About What Is Considered Important and Unimportant in Sociology Index