Routledge Everyday Culture: Finding and Making Meaning in a Changing World

Everyday Culture examines the confluence of cultural and material possibility--the bringing together of thought and action in daily life. David Trend argues that an informed and invigorated citizenry can help reverse patterns of dehumanization and social control. The impetus for Everyday Culture can be described in the observation by Raymond Williams that the "culture is ordinary," and that the fabric of meanings that inform and organize everyday life often go undervalued and unexamined. Everyday Culture shares with thinkers like Williams the conviction that it is precisely the ordinariness of culture that makes it extraordinarily important. The ubiquity of everyday culture means that it affects all aspects of contemporary economic, social, and political life. Review A Favorite With Students: "Overall great read! I loved it." "I actually WANTED to read this book. It was interesting and very understandable." "This is a great alternative to other textbooks. It is interesting and to the point." “[David Trend] never gets bogged down in theory without providing good, concrete examples from everyday life.” --Dennis Carlson, Miami University, Ohio About the Author David Trend is Professor of Studio Art at the University of California-Irvine. He is the author of The Myth of Media Violence (Blackwell 2007).