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Reading Matters: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Reading

  • Thumala Olave M
Springer International Publishing, (2022), 19-61
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_2
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Sociologists have studied reading mostly as a product of, or an input to, the social structure. In so doing they have failed to capture why reading matters to people. On the basis of the intensive practices of reading fiction among women in the UK, this chapter...

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Thumala Olave, M. A. (2022). Reading Matters: Toward a Cultural Sociology of Reading. In The Cultural Sociology of Reading (pp. 19–61). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13227-8_2

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