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

ISBN-13: 9780230201224 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 400 str.

Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Opis

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.

Spis treści

The Everyday: Introduction to an Introduction; M. Hviid Jacobsen.- PART I: FOUNDATION.- The Chicago School of Sociology; A. Jørgensen and D. Smith.- American Pragmatism; R. C. Prus and A. J. Puddephatt.- Phenomenological Sociology; S. Overgaard and D. Zahavi.- Symbolic Interactionism; D. D. Waskul.- Existential Sociology; J. A. Kotarba.- Critical Everyday Life Sociologies; M. E. Gardiner.- PART II: FERMENTATION.- French Sociologies of the Quotidian; D Schilling.- Erving Goffman; S. Kristiansen.- Ethnomethodology; S. Hester.- Conversation Analysis; P. ten Have.- The Sociology of the Absurd; M. Hviid Jacobsen.- PART III: DISSEMINATION.- Scandinavian Everyday Life Sociologies; A. Christensen.- The Sociology of Emotions; P. Poder.- Social Semiotics; P. Vannini.- Cultural Studies and Everyday Life; D. Inglis.- Interpretive Interactionism; N. K. Denzin.- Index.

O autorze

MICHAEL HVIID JACOBSEN is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Studies in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organization, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published widely in the field of everyday life and sociology.

Blurb

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.