Encountering the Everyday An Introduction to

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.

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.

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction: The Everyday: An Introduction to an Introduction	p. 1
Foundation	p. 43
Contents	p. 43
The Chicago School of Sociology: Survival in the Urban Jungle	p. 45
American Pragmatism: Examining Everyday Life 'in the Making'	p. 69
Phenomenological Sociology: The Subjectivity of Everyday Life	p. 93
Symbolic Interactionism: The Play and Fate of Meanings in Everyday Life	p. 116
Existential Sociology: The Self Confronts Society	p. 139
Critical Everyday Life Sociologies: Problematizing the Everyday	p. 162
Fermentation	p. 185
Contents	p. 185
French Sociologies of the Quotidian: From Dialectical Marxism to the Anthropology of Everyday Practice	p. 187
Erving Goffman: Self-Presentations in Everyday Life	p. 211
Ethnomethodology: Respecifying the Problem of Social Order	p. 234
Conversation Analysis: Analysing Everyday Conversational Activities	p. 257
The Sociology of the Absurd: An Absurd Man in an Absurd World	p. 279
Dissemination	p. 305
Contents	p. 305
Scandinavian Everyday Life Sociologies: Routines, Ruptures and Strategies	p. 307
The Sociology of Emotions: Managing, Exchanging and Generating Emotions in Everyday Life	p. 329
Social Semiotics: Constructing Stuff in Everyday Life	p. 353
Cultural Studies and Everyday Life: Tapping Hidden Energies	p. 376
Interpretive Interactionism: A Postmodern Approach to Everyday Life	p. 397
Index	p. 423
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Encountering the Everyday An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed

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