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Key Features:
- Introduces debates about the sociology
of everyday life in an accessible, student-friendly manner
- Covers major topics in the sociology
of daily life from the private sphere through to work, consumption
and the community
- Shows how the perspectives of sociology,
cultural studies and feminism can shed new light on everyday
life
- Employs a wide range of richly-worked
examples to illustrate the debates
- Contains numerous activities, readings
and illustrations to encourage students to think laterally
around the subject area
- Throughout the book, key terms and
names are highlighted to aid study
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Why will students engage with this
book?
By focusing on familiar sites and scenes - the home, the pub,
the street - this text introduces students to contemporary debates
about the social organization of everyday life. From the private
sphere through to work, consumption and the community, it reveals
the intricacies of social processes and structures as they affect
students' own lives.
Why will academics enjoy working with
this book?
Using richly-illustrated examples, the authors demonstrate how
the perspectives of sociology, cultural studies and feminism can
shed new light on aspects of day-to-day social life that are usually
taken for granted. At the same time, they place these debates in
historical perspective, both by tracing key historical changes in
the patterns of everyday life and by looking at the history of social
thought about the everyday. The authors consider a broad range of
theoretical approaches to everyday life and explore these in the
light of class, ethnicity, age, gender and sexuality.
Each chapter is accompanied by a set of
extracts from key, previously published, readings that are relevant
to the chapter topic. At the end of the book you will also find
the following set of 'generic' readings on issues of sociology and
everyday life:
- Henri Lefebvre: Everyday life in
the modern world (1968)
- Jim McGuigan: Culture and the public
sphere (1996)
- Alfred Schutz: The reality of the
world of daily life (1944)
- Don H. Zimmerman and Melvin Pollner:
The attitude of everyday life (1970)
- Agnes Heller: The heterogeneity of
everyday life (1970)
- Michel de Certeau: The practice of
everyday life: "making do" - uses and tactics (1984)
- John Fiske: Cultural studies and
the culture of everyday life (1992)
- Erving Goffman: The presentation
of self in everyday life (1959)
- Harold Garfinkel: Studies of the
routine grounds of everyday activities (1967)
- Christena E. Nippert-Eng: Transitional
acts as rituals (1996)
- Richard Hoggart: The immediate, the
present, the cheerful: fate and luck (1957)
- Dorothy E. Smith: The everyday world
as problematic: the standpoint of women (1988)
- Rita Felski: The invention of everyday
life (1999-2000)
- Roger Silverstone: Television, ontology
and the transitional object: routines, rituals, traditions, myths
(1994)
- Pierre Bourdieu: Class tastes and
lifestyles: the culture of the necessary (1979)
These reading have been selected for their
broader relevance to the overall themes of the book, exemplifying
both historically important writing as well as current approaches.
Who will benefit from this book?
Understanding Everyday Life is an ideal text for undergraduate
students of sociology and cultural studies.
Publication details:
| Publication date: |
February 2002 |
| Details: |
360 pages 246 x 189 mm / 7.5 x 9.75 in |
| Paperback: |
9780631233084 £15.99 / $39.95 |
| Hardback: |
9780631233077 £55.00 / $74.95 |
Desk Copies
If you would like to receive a complimentary examination copy
of the book, and teach a relevant course with over 12 students,
simply send an email to Louise
Cooper.
Please state the book title, your name,
address and your course details, and we would be delighted to send
you a copy.
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