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Accounting for everyday incivility: an Australian study
Citation
Phillips, T, Accounting for everyday incivility: an Australian study, Australian Journal of Social Issues, 41, (3) pp. 295-311. ISSN 0157-6321 (2006) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2006.tb00017.x
Abstract
The question of how we live among strangers in daily life is an established
concern in contemporary social analysis. A key topic has been the
achievements of the individual in rendering daily life among unknown
others possible. Yet, questions of residual failure await full development.
The study aims to describe the results of an Australian study that examined
the significance and meaning of interactional breakdown with strangers in
everyday life for the contemporary individual. Focus group methodology is
used to describe common threads of understanding that ordinary people
have developed around such events in terms of prevalence, reasons and
remedies. Noteworthy findings are (i) the use of period and generational
kinds of historical thinking in lay reflections on the state of everyday incivility
(ii) the materialization of excessive individualism, runaway capitalist values and
diminished community as key ideas within lay talk about the generators of
everyday incivility, and (iii) the articulation of communitarianism as a preferred
panacea to everyday incivility for lay actors.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | everyday life, focus groups, metropolis, perceptions, experiences, strangers, incivility |
Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Sociology not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Religion |
Objective Field: | Religion not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Phillips, T (Dr Timothy Phillips) |
ID Code: | 63180 |
Year Published: | 2006 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
Deposited By: | Sociology and Social Work |
Deposited On: | 2010-04-17 |
Last Modified: | 2015-06-25 |
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