The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life

By E. Zerubavel. 2006

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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1. Murray A. Straus
2. Michal Ephratt
3. Ko Ling Chan
4. D. Schmitt
5. Emily M. Douglas

Citations in the corpus

• The functions of silence (2008, background): “It was treated as absence: absence of speech, and absence of meaning and intention (see e.g., Bruneau, 1973:18; Dauenhauer, 1980:5; Saville-Troike, 1994; Poyatos, 2002:II, 197–299; Zerubavel, 2006:13).”
• Why the Overwhelming Evidence on Partner Physical Violence by Women Has Not Been Perceived and Is Often Denied (2009, background): “Finally, just as denial of painful phenomena by individuals is usually harmful, denial by social groups is likely to be harmful to the group engaged in the denial (Zerubavel, 2006).”