Making sense of everyday life /
Scott, Susie, 1977-
Making sense of everyday life / Susie Scott. - xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
1. What is everyday life? : Defining the everyday ; How did the sociology of everyday life develop? ; How do we study everyday life? -- 2. Theorizing the mundane : Theorizing social order ; Theorizing rituals and routines ; Theorizing challenges -- 3. Emotions : Love and social order ; Embarrassment and ritual performances ; Shyness: challenging expectations -- 4. Home : The meaning of home ; Ordering the home ; Home-making rituals ; Challenging domesticity -- 5. Time : Experiencing time ; Time and social order ; Time and daily routines ; Challenging temporality -- 6. Eating and drinking : Food rituals and routines ; Dining and social order ; Eating around the norm ; Drinking rules and rituals ; Deviant drinking -- 7. Health, illness and disability : Defining health and illness ; Biomedicine and social order ; Routines of illness ; Challenging ab/normality -- 8. Shopping : Meaningful rituals ; Orderly patterns ; Shopping and rule-breaking -- 9. Leisure : Structured freedom? -- Leisure rituals and routines ; Challenging leisure ; Vacations ; Breaking the rules -- 10. Researching everyday life : Documenting social order ; Researching rituals and routines ; Challenging alternatives ; Ethics and politics ; Designing your own research.
"This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes: 'rituals and routines', 'social order', and `challenging the taken-for-granted', with intriguing examples and illustrations. Theoretical approaches from ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism and social psychology are introduced and applied to real-life situations, and there is clear emphasis on empirical research findings throughout. Social order depends on individuals following norms and rules which are so familiar as to appear natural; yet, as Scott encourages the reader to discover, these are always open to question and investigation." -- Book cover.
0745642675 9780745642673 0745642683 9780745642680
2009282276
Social psychology.
Manners and customs.
Human behavior.
HM585 / .S39 2009
302.1
Making sense of everyday life / Susie Scott. - xi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index.
1. What is everyday life? : Defining the everyday ; How did the sociology of everyday life develop? ; How do we study everyday life? -- 2. Theorizing the mundane : Theorizing social order ; Theorizing rituals and routines ; Theorizing challenges -- 3. Emotions : Love and social order ; Embarrassment and ritual performances ; Shyness: challenging expectations -- 4. Home : The meaning of home ; Ordering the home ; Home-making rituals ; Challenging domesticity -- 5. Time : Experiencing time ; Time and social order ; Time and daily routines ; Challenging temporality -- 6. Eating and drinking : Food rituals and routines ; Dining and social order ; Eating around the norm ; Drinking rules and rituals ; Deviant drinking -- 7. Health, illness and disability : Defining health and illness ; Biomedicine and social order ; Routines of illness ; Challenging ab/normality -- 8. Shopping : Meaningful rituals ; Orderly patterns ; Shopping and rule-breaking -- 9. Leisure : Structured freedom? -- Leisure rituals and routines ; Challenging leisure ; Vacations ; Breaking the rules -- 10. Researching everyday life : Documenting social order ; Researching rituals and routines ; Challenging alternatives ; Ethics and politics ; Designing your own research.
"This accessible, introductory text explains the importance of studying 'everyday life' in the social sciences. Susie Scott examines such varied topics as leisure, eating and drinking, the idea of home, and time and schedules in order to show how societies are created and reproduced by the apparently mundane 'micro' level practices of everyday life. Each chapter is organized around three main themes: 'rituals and routines', 'social order', and `challenging the taken-for-granted', with intriguing examples and illustrations. Theoretical approaches from ethnomethodology, Symbolic Interactionism and social psychology are introduced and applied to real-life situations, and there is clear emphasis on empirical research findings throughout. Social order depends on individuals following norms and rules which are so familiar as to appear natural; yet, as Scott encourages the reader to discover, these are always open to question and investigation." -- Book cover.
0745642675 9780745642673 0745642683 9780745642680
2009282276
Social psychology.
Manners and customs.
Human behavior.
HM585 / .S39 2009
302.1