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https://doi.org/10.5673/sip.58.3.1
Everyday Life: An Interface of Micro, Mezzo and Macro Theories
Hajrudin Hromadžić
; University of Rijeka, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Croatia
Abstract
The article is dedicated to an overview of some of the most relevant theories of everyday life.
Accordingly, the paper deals with all three levels of theories of everyday life – micro (Garfinkel,
Simmel, Goffman), mezzo (Berger, Luckmann, Bourdieu), and macro (Lefebvre, Debord,
Vaneigem, Heller). In that context, sociology – as the central social-humanistic discipline on
the issues and phenomena of everyday life – is brought into subject-methodological and interdisciplinary
‘dialogue’ with philosophy, and partly with anthropology and cultural studies. The
paper tries to question, and even dispute, the often advocated thesis of the self-evident primacy
of micro-sociological theories in research and interpretations of everyday life in relation to
macro-theoretical considerations of everydayness and their relevance.
Keywords
everyday life; micro-sociology of everyday life; macro-theories of everydayness
Hrčak ID:
248886
URI
Publication date:
28.12.2020.
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