Encountering the Everyday : An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed

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. Dedication Contents List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: The Everyday: An Introduction to an Introduction • Michael Hviid Jacobsen PART I: FOUNDATION Contents 1 The Chicago School of Sociology: Survival in the Urban Jungle • Anja Jørgensen and Dennis Smith 2 American Pragmatism: Examining Everyday Life ‘in the Making’ • Robert C. Prus and Antony J. Puddephatt 3 Phenomenological Sociology: The Subjectivity of EverydayLife • Søren Overgaard and Dan Zahavi 4 Symbolic Interactionism: The Play and Fate of Meanings in Everyday Life • Dennis D. Waskul 5 Existential Sociology: The Self Confronts Society • Joseph A. Kotarba 6 Critical Everyday Life Sociologies: Problematizing the Everyday • Michael E. Gardiner PART II: FERMENTATION Contents 7 French Sociologies of the Quotidian: From Dialectical Marxism to the Anthropology of Everyday Practice • Derek Schilling 8 Erving Goffman: Self-Presentations in Everyday Life • Søren Kristiansen 9 Ethnomethodology: Respecifying the Problem of Social Order • Stephen Hester 10 Conversation Analysis: Analysing Everyday Conversational Activities • Paul ten Have 11 The Sociology of the Absurd: An Absurd Man in an Absurd World • Michael Hviid Jacobsen PART III: DISSEMINATION Contents 12 Scandinavian Everyday Life Sociologies: Routines, Ruptures and Strategies • Ann-Dorte Christensen 13 The Sociology of Emotions: Managing, Exchanging and Generating Emotions in Everyday Life • Poul Poder 14 Social Semiotics: Constructing Stuff in Everyday Life • Phillip Vannini 15 Cultural Studies and Everyday Life: Tapping Hidden Energies • David Inglis 16 Interpretive Interactionism: A Postmodern Approach to Everyday Life • Norman K. Denzin Index Introduction : the everyday an introduction to an introduction / Michael Hviid Jacobsen The Chicago School of Sociology : survival in the urban jungle / Anja Jørgensen & Dennis Smith American Pragmatism : examining everyday life "in the making" / Robert C. Prus & Antony J. Puddephatt Phenomenological sociology : the subjectivity of everyday life / Søren Overgaard & Dan Zahavi Symbolic initeractionism : the play and fate of meanings in everyday life / Dennis D. Waskul Existential sociology : the self confronts society / Joseph A. Kotarba Critical everyday life sociologies : problematizing the everyday / Michael E. Gardiner French sociologies of the Quotidian : - From dialectical Marxism to the anthropology of everyday practice / Derek Schilling Erving Goffman : Self presentations in everyday life / Søren Kristiansen Ethnomethodology : respecifying the problem of social order / Stephen Hester Conversation analysis : analyzing everyday conversational activities / Paul ten Have The sociology of the absurd : an absurd man in an absurd world / Michael Hviid Jacobsen Scandinavian everyday life sociologies : routines, ruptures and strategies / Ann-Dorte Christensen The sociology of emotions : managing, exchanging and generating emotions in everyday life / Poul Poder Social semiotics : constructing stuff in everyday life / Phillip Vannini Cultural studies and everyday life : tapping hidden energies / David Inglis Interpretive interactionism : a postmodern approach to everyday life / Norman K. Denzin. "Everyday life is the most important dimension of society. Introducing classical and contemporary theory alongside key empirical work, this is a comprehensive exploration of everyday life sociologies. Written by leading experts in the field, each chapter makes concepts from Existentialism to Semiotics accessible for students and scholars alike." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0913/2008038420-d.html.