Making sense of everyday life
By: Susie Scott
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780745642673; 9780745642680
Subjects: Social psychology; Manners and customs; Human behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-232) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. What is everyday life? : Defining the everyday ; How did the sociology of everyday life develop? ; How do we study everyday life?; title: 2. Theorizing the mundane : Theorizing social order ; Theorizing rituals and routines ; Theorizing challenges; title: 3. Emotions : Love and social order ; Embarrassment and ritual performances ; Shyness: challenging expectations; title: 4. Home : The meaning of home ; Ordering the home ; Home-making rituals ; Challenging domesticity; title: 5. Time : Experiencing time ; Time and social order ; Time and daily routines ; Challenging temporality; title: 6. Eating and drinking : Food rituals and routines ; Dining and social order ; Eating around the norm ; Drinking rules and rituals ; Deviant drinking; title: 7. Health, illness and disability : Defining health and illness ; Biomedicine and social order ; Routines of illness ; Challenging ab/normality; title: 8. Shopping : Meaningful rituals ; Orderly patterns ; Shopping and rule-breaking; title: 9. Leisure : Structured freedom?; title: Leisure rituals and routines ; Challenging leisure ; Vacations ; Breaking the rules; title: 10. Researching everyday life : Documenting social order ; Researching rituals and routines ; Challenging alternatives ; Ethics and politics ; Designing your own research.