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DETECTING THE SOCIAL - MARY EVANS SARAH MOORE H...

This book analyses the ways in which twenty-first century detective fiction provides an
understanding of the increasingly complex and often baffling contemporary world - and what
sociology  as a discipline  can learn from it. Conventional sociological accounts of fiction
generally comprehend its value in terms of the ways in which it can illustrate  enlarge or help
to articulate a particular social theory. Evans  Moore  and Johnstone suggest a different
approach  and demonstrate that by taking a group of detective novels  we can unveil so far
unidentified  but crucial  theoretical ideas about what it means to be an individual in the
twenty-first century. More specifically  the authors argue that detective fiction of the last
forty years illuminates the effects of urban isolation and separation  the invisibility of
institutional power  financial insecurity  and the failure of public authorities to protect
people. In doing so  this body of fiction traces out the fault-lines in our social arrangements
rehearses our collective fears  and captures a mood of restless disquiet. By engaging with
detective stories in this way  the book revisits ideas about the promise and purpose of
sociology.

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