Encountering the everyday : an introduction to the sociologies of the unnoticed / [edited by] Michael Hviid Jacobsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobsen, Michael Hviid, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social interaction.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xiv, 431 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society - it's where we live most parts of our lives with each other. This book provides a clear, contemporary and comprehensive overview of the sociologies of everyday life.

Looking at everyday activities and experiences, from language and emotions to popular culture and leisure, Encountering the Everyday explores what social structures, orders and processes mean to us on a daily basis. The book carefully leads the reader through historical developments in the field, beginning at the earlier Chicago School and finishing with up-to-date ideas of postmodernism and interactionism. Each chapter relates theoretical ideas directly to case studies and real empirical research to make complex concepts and core issues accessible, relevant and engaging. Written by leading international scholars in the field, this truly global book will inspire and inform all students and scholars of everyday life sociology.

Contents:

Introduction: The Everyday: An Introduction to an Introduction / Michael Hviid Jacobsen 1

Part I Foundation 43

1 The Chicago School of Sociology: Survival in the Urban Jungle / Anja Jorgensen, Dennis Smith 45

2 American Pragmatism: Examining Everyday Life 'in the Making' / Robert C. Prus, Antony J. Puddephatt 69

3 Phenomenological Sociology: The Subjectivity of Everyday Life / Soren Overgaard, Dan Zahavi 93

4 Symbolic Interactionism: The Play and Fate of Meanings in Everyday Life / Dennis D. Waskul 116

5 Existential Sociology: The Self Confronts Society / Joseph A. Kotarba 139

6 Critical Everyday Life Sociologies: Problematizing the Everyday / Michael E. Gardiner 162

Part II Fermentation 185

7 French Sociologies of the Quotidian: From Dialectical Marxism to the Anthropology of Everyday Practice / Derek Schilling 187

8 Erving Goffman: Self-Presentations in Everyday Life / Soren Kristiansen 211

9 Ethnomethodology: Respectifying the Problem of Social Order / Stephen Hester 234

10 Conversation Analysis: Analysing Everyday Conversational Activities / Paul ten Have 257

11 The Sociology of the Absurd: An Absurd Man in an Absurd World / Michael Hviid Jacobsen 279

Part III Dissemination 305

12 Scandinavian Everyday Life Sociologies: Routines, Ruptures and Strategies / Ann-Dorte Christensen 307

13 The Sociology of Emotions: Managing, Exchanging and Generating Emotions in Everyday Life / Poul Poder 329

14 Social Semiotics: Constructing Stuff in Everyday Life / Phillip Vannini 353

15 Cultural Studies and Everyday Life: Tapping Hidden Energies / David Inglis 376

16 Interpretive Interactionism: A Postmodern Approach to Everyday Life / Norman K. Denzin 397.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230201224

0230201229

0230201237

9780230201231

OCLC:

257554221