Sociology of Everyday Life

General characterization

Prerequisites

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Teaching method

The teaching methodology adopted privileges the systematic and simultaneous interpretation of the unit contents through the discussion of current issues surrounding objects of daily life. The structuring of the unit into theoretical sessions, where the theoretical and conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches are exposed, and discussion sessions, based on practical examples, where students can visualise the operationalisation of theoretical and conceptual frameworks, acquiring the necessary skills to awaken them to the questions of the sociology of everyday life. The teaching methodology is centered on the student, who throughout the semester learns and applies the acquired concepts, with his/her autonomous and group work, with the fundamentals and application of the main strategies of empirical research. Particular importance is given to the continuous assessment that allows the student to, throughout the semester, demonstrate in a phased manner the skills acquired with his work and at the same time, articulate with the research methodologies in sociology of daily life.

Evaluation method

The assessment is divided into three components:
a) 2 individual exercises in class (30%)
b) 2 group exercises in the classroom (20%)
c) Group work (50%) - This work will include a theoretical and methodological framework and the collection of some empirical data.
At first, the groups will select an article published in Sociology scientific journals, previously selected by the teachers, which constitute examples of empirical investigation of objects of daily life. A total of 20 texts will be available on themes of daily life interactions (see point 3.), which vary each year. These articles mobilise theoretical and conceptual approaches taught in the lectures which support the empirical analysis of themes and problems of the sociology of everyday life. In a second moment, the groups select the theme on which they carry out an original work, integrating a theoretical and an empirical component. The evaluation will focus on the written paper (between 15 and 20 pages) and its discussion to be held during the classes (15 minutes presentation + 15 minutes discussion).

Subject matter

1. SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO EVERYDAY Life
• The Sociology of Everyday Life as a way of looking reality
• Temporalities and spatialities: coordinates of daily life
• Scenarios, episodes and everyday situations
• Methods in approaching everyday life
2. SOCIOLOGICAL PARADIGMS IN ANALYSIS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
• From the notion of self to the concept of society G. Mead: Spirit, person and society
• H. Blumer: The methodological position of symbolic interactionism
• Common sense in interpretive paradigms: phenomenology, ethnomethodology and the sociology of experience
• Ritualization and theatricalization: E. Goffman's dramaturgical model
• The creation of symbols and the construction of identities: Jean -Claude Kaufmann
• G. Simmel: Reciprocal action and social types / The social level and the individual level
• Goffman's territories of the Self
• Daily tactics and strategies: the work of Michel de Certeau
• Emotions and performance in the presentation of the self: Scott and Jacobsen
3. DAILY INTERACTIONS
Contexts at the margins;
Social construction of space
Affective and virtual everyday lives;
Portraits and identities in everyday life;
Closed daily lives: work, control and resistance
Everyday lives in public space and/or in the city
Emotions and performance in the presentation of the self.

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