Sociology Of Everyday Life Research Articles

Arkhangelsk Commercial Club (Marfa’s House) as a center of European culture of the port city of Arkhangelsk of the late XIX – early XX centuries

This article is dedicated to the Arkhangelsk Commercial Club (Marfa’s House) – a cultural center of the port city during the late XIX – early XX centuries. The author traces the fates of the representatives of Western European dynasties of merchants and tradesmen who dwelled in the port city for several centuries and were subjected to repressions during the World War I and Soviet time. Currently, one of the paramount tasks of scientific community consists in the preservation of memory on the activity of the prominent people of the past, as not only the region, but also the country as a whole owes them for development of economy, culture, science, systems of state administration, education, and a number of other spheres of life. The theoretical-methodological framework for the research became the set of methods of new anthropologically-oriented branches of historical science, generalized by the concept of “historical anthropology”, which allowed shifting the point of attention from history of government structures towards life of households and separate individuals. The experience of working with cognate disciplines – such as historical sociology and sociology of everyday life became useful, especially when working sources of personal origin. The article employs modern methodology and introduces into the scientific discourse documents discovered by the author in the State Archive of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Archive of the Arkhangelsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, as well as biographical records on the representatives of the prominent Arkhangelsk merchant dynasties – families Leuzinger and Petz from the personal archives of the descendants.

O quotidiano na sala de vacinação: vivências de profissionais de enfermagem

Objetivo: compreender o quotidiano das salas de vacinação sob a ótica do profissional de Enfermagem. Materiais e Métodos: estudo de casos múltiplos holístico-qualitativo, fundamentado na sociologia compreensiva do quotidiano com 56 participantes de quatro microrregiões da Região Ampliada Oeste de Minas Gerais, Brasil.Resultados: a falta de vacina, a informatização, a comunicação e o horário de funcionamento da sala de vacinação interferem no quotidiano e na assistência prestada ao usuário. As ações realizadas na sala de vacinação implicam diretamente na confiança que os usuários têm no profissional. Surge a integralidade da atenção na sala de vacinação e esse espaço como um lugar para a construção do vínculo.Conclusões: aspectos inerentes ao profissional e à estrutura, organização, apoio e educação permanente influenciam o quotidiano do trabalho seguro na vacinação e nas coberturas vacinais. Faz-se necessário incorporar a supervisão sistematizada do enfermeiro nas salas de vacinação e a educação permanente dos profissionais.

“Human Life is Like a Joke”. Ágnes Heller in memoriam

ABSTRACTÁgnes Heller who died on 19 July 2019 was one of the most influential social scientists of the last century, particularly from the publication of Everyday Life Sociology in the 1960s. With analysis of main concepts such as transcendental freedom and hetero interpretation, I wish to pay tribute to my Master of revolutionary ideas in philosophy and sociology in our daily life-world actions. However, Heller's work crossed boundaries between disciplines and include analysis on contemporary literature and music.

Vaccination access in Primary Care from the user's perspective: senses and feelings about healthcare services

Abstract Objective: To understand the feelings, senses, perceptions and perspectives of Users regarding access to vaccination in Primary Health Care. Method: This is a Holistic-Qualitative Multiple Case Study, based on Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life with 74 participants representing four microregions of health in the Western Extended Region of Minas Gerais. Data collection occurred between June 2016 and April 2017. In order to analyse the data, we used the Thematic Content Analysis, obeying the technique of cross-synthesis of the cases. Results: The results reveal the senses perceived by Users in the experience of vaccination and the feelings regarding care, showing that interpersonal relations between population and health professionals are determinant in the access to vaccination. The constant expansion of the official immunization schedule increased access, however, geographical and social aspects, the lack of knowledge about vaccination and the recurrent lack of immunobiological were referred to as barriers to immunization access. Final considerations: We emphasized the need to reinforce more equitable policies and effective communication as a means to promote the credibility of the services with Users.

Os significados das práticas corporais no tempo de lazer entre pescadores do Cumbe

The objective article comprises the meanings of corporate practices in their leisure time in a community of fishermen (Cumbe/Aracati‐CE/Brazil). A research of ethnographic orientation had as procedure a participatory observation and a comprehensive interview. The theoretical framework consists of authors of Physical Education and Sociology of Everyday Life. The results point to: leisure time at the same time constituted by a set of corporate practices not habit to go to the river. “cumê no mato” appears as an interaction ritual, involving corporate practices such as fishing and eating. In a sense of fun and approach, it evokes a feeling of camaraderie and promotes the fluidity of the encounter.

Unpicking contemporary thrift: Getting on and getting by in everyday life

This article explores contemporary thrift. To date scholarly attempts to define thrift are always focused on consumption, centring upon household finances and how thrift revolves around the peaks and troughs of spending and saving. In this article the author argues that this financial focus ignores the myriad of thrifty practices which occur beyond the point of purchase but which are no less central to thrift. Instead, the author suggests that contemporary thrift occurs within a continuum of motivations which extend far beyond the practice of shopping, and overspill the categories of consumption and production: the extreme points of which are financial necessity, conscience and enjoyment. Three particular empirical moments of household activity – shopping, cooking and repair and making – are used to illustrate how these motivations to be thrifty overlap, compete and interweave. In doing so, the author contends that thrift is about value and how value is perceived, produced and released through different contexts, motivations and activities. This article adds to the growing body of scholarly work on the sociology of everyday life, illustrating how thrift encompasses a broad range of activities which are part of the intricacies and intimacies of getting by and getting on in everyday life.

CULTURA POP e PERFORMANCE: JOGOS IDENTITÁRIOS NOS EVENTOS DE ANIMÊ

A grande popularidade da cultura pop japonesa no Brasil, impulsionada pelo chamado boom dos animês nos anos 1990, levou à criação dos eventos de animê. Essas convenções, inicialmente voltadas para fãs de animações e seriados japoneses, hoje atraem neotribos, ou tribos urbanas, que se fundam no gosto por diversos segmentos da cultura pop mundial. Filiado à sociologia do cotidiano e do imaginário e apoiado em pesquisa de campo de inspiração etnográfica, este artigo parte da compreensão da estética como ética para vislumbrar o elã que permite a comunhão entre neotribos. Para tanto, são analisadas quatro atividades comuns aos eventos e que dependem da participação dos visitantes para ganharem vida: o cosplay, o animekê, os covers de k-pop e os videogames de dança. Tais atividades evidenciam modos de socialidade que produzem sentidos por meio da performance, em suas dimensões de encenação, brincadeira e jogo

Queerying activism through the lens of the sociology of everyday life

The approaching 30th anniversary of the introduction of the 1988 Local Government Act offers an opportunity to reflect on the nature of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) activism in Britain. The protests against its implementation involved some of the most iconic moments of queer activism. Important though they are, these singular, totemic moments give rise to, and are sustained by small, almost unobtrusive acts which form part of LGB people’s everyday lives. This article aims to contribute to a re-thinking of queer activism where iconic activism is placed in a synergetic relationship with the quieter practices in the quotidian lives of LGB people. The authors interrogate a series of examples, drawn from three studies, to expand ideas about how activism is constituted in everyday life. They discuss the findings in relation to three themes: the need to forge social bonds often forms a prompt to action; disrupting the binary dualism between making history and making a life; and the transformative potential of everyday actions/activism. The lens of the sociology of everyday life (1) encourages a wider constituency of others to engage in politics, and (2) problematises the place of iconic activism.

Contemporary families and digital practices : which adjustments for which norms ?

Research Framework :Sociological knowledge about the link between digital practices and family life still needs developing. It is within this context, this journal issue and introductory article explore how marital negotiations and parent-child relationships are being transformed by these digital practices, forms of surveillance mediated by these technologies or, conversely, new ways in which autonomy is attained, the balance between peer and familial socialisation, as well as the connection between gender roles and the ways in which these technologies are used by couples and families.Objectives :This introductory article is designed to present the current state of research on these topics and critically examine the corpus of articles included in this issue.Methodology :Through a review of the literature, we situate this special issue within a broader context of research that, for nearly twenty years, at the intersection of work on the family and work on communication technologies and the internet.Results :In the first section, we suggest that this field of research is yet to be developed. In the following sections, we will show how the articles in this themed issue largely demonstrate that family digital practices reflect current social norms, as well as the tensions these norms may create. Although this analysis is not new (Pasquier, 2018), it is refined by the multiplicity of actors, discourses, and methodologies.Conclusions :As a result of the evaluation and selection of the articles, this themed issue is intended to give a voice to sociologists influenced by a relationist approach and a constructivist language. These articles deal with intimacy and fall within the framework of the sociology of everyday life, taking a close look at ordinary practices. Technologicaly deterministic analyses (Jauréguilberry and Proulx, 2011) are therefore less present. Scholars interested in these topics will find that much remains to be done, and the constant evolution of these practices and technologies ensures that there will always be new questions to address.Contribution :This themed issue contributes to the dialogue between various sociological studies of the individual and his or her relationship to norms, where some believe that the norms govern the individual (structuralism), while others believe that the individual negotiate and co-creates the norms regulating these 'good practices' (pragmatism, interactionism). Moreover, this introductory article will provide a short but necessary survey of French-language sociological knowledge about families in the digital era – a way to remind ourselves and our readers of the Foucauldian idea that scientific works about a research topic are not neutral.

The ‘interrogative gaze’

Abstract This paper identifies salient properties of how talk about video communication is organised interactionally, and how this interaction invokes an implied order of behaviour that is treated as ‘typical’ and ‘accountably representative’ of video communication. This invoked order will be called an interrogative gaze. This is an implied orientation to action, one that is used as a jointly managed interpretative schema that allows video communication to be talked about and understood as rationally, purposively and collaboratively undertaken in particular, ‘known in common’ ways. This applies irrespective of whether the actions in question are prospective (are about to happen) or have been undertaken in the past and are being accounted for in the present or are ‘generally the case’ – in current talk. The paper shows how this constitutive device also aids in sense making through such things as topic management in video-mediated interaction, and in elaborating the salience of the relationship between this and the patterned governance of social affairs – viz, mother-daughter, friend-friend – as normatively achieved outcomes. It will be shown how the interrogative gaze is variously appropriate and consequentially invoked not just in terms of what is done in a video call or making such calls accountable, but in helping articulate different orders of connection between persons, and how these orders have implications for sensible and appropriate behaviour in video calling and hence, for the type of persons who are involved. This, in turn, explains how a decision to avoid using video communication is made an accountably reasonable thing to do. The relevance of these findings for the sociology of everyday life and the philosophy of action are explored.

The sociology of everyday life: A research program on contemporary sociality

‘Everyday life’ is a sphere of social relations that has gained increasing attention. The rediscovery of the ‘ordinary’, stimulated by the so-called ‘sociologies of everyday life’ during the 1960s–1990s, has reshaped the subject matter itself of the discipline. This article reviews the intellectual experience represented by the 1960s–1990s sociologies of everyday life. Through comparison with the normative structuralism of Durkheim and Parsons, the most influential sociological version of structuralism in the period immediately after the Second World War, the intention is to pursue two main goals. First, to establish the ‘scientific attitude’ and ‘research program’ developed by such sociologies. Second, to explain why the time has come for the sociologies of everyday life to begin a new phase – in particular given that the present technologization of everyday cultures has changed the order itself of interaction through the advent of a ‘mass knowledge society’.

生活者の社会学を創造する : 「ヘボ探偵」にならないために

生活者の社会学を創造する : 「ヘボ探偵」にならないために

”Så griner vi heldigvis lidt af det”. Ægtepars erfaringer med demens i et hverdagslivs sociologisk perspektiv

“Fortunately, we laugh a bit about it”. Couples experiences with dementia in an everyday life sociological perspectiveThe article examines changes in the relation between spouses in married couples, where one partner has a dementia diagnosis. Seven qualitative interviews with couples are analyzed with Alfred Schutz sociology of everyday life as a theoretical framework. The analysis asks the question how spouses reinvent routines in an everyday life characterized by a growing unpredictability, and thereby creates new meaningfulness and roles. The analysis illustrates how partners orient themselves in a changed social world, and thereby manage to live an everyday life with dementia. Three modes of relation to each other and to the illness are found, which could partly be understood in connection to the seriousness of the illness: first the couple manage challenges in a marital alliance, later an agreement with new roles and tasks for the partners is established, and towards the final stages of dementia marriage is described as an asymmetrical care relationship.

ОБРАЗОВАТЕЛЬНАЯ МИГРАЦИЯ И ЭТНОСОЦИАЛЬНЫЕ КОНФЛИКТЫ В ВУЗАХ РОССИИ, УКРАИНЫ И США

The authors present preliminary outcomes of a field research dealing with comparative analysis of education migration and ethno-social conflict in academic environment. The research was conducted in Russia (Kazan, Saint Petersburg and Syktyvkar), Ukraine (Kiev), and the United States of America (Los An- geles). The paper starts with a discussion of the context of education migration in three countries and conceptual consid- erations. Theoretical and methodological basis of this study combines mechanistic perspectives, neo-institutional approach, and sociology of everyday life. Then dis- cussion turns to the flows of internal and external student migration influenced by different academic environment and ethno-social conflict potential. The paper argues that casual mechanisms of socio-ethnic conflicts unfold on insti- tutional, organizational, and individual levels (level of everyday interaction). The authors provide characteristics of three generalized models of ‘no occurrence’ of ethno-social conflicts in academe. The study exposes a balance between the formation of small groups and friendly networks between students and formation of the «ghettoized’ groups inside the student community. The paper explores the interrelation between the equality demand and actual academic practices in higher education institutes in Russia, Ukraine, and the USA.

The Sociology of Social Intercourse in the Social Sciences

The paper aims to discuss the materials and outcomes of recently conducted research dealing with an analysis of the similarities and differences in current sociological theories exploring social inter-connection phenomena. The authors translate the term “obschenie”employed in Russian literature as “social intercourse”. Four basic theoretical constructions are under scrutiny, those being Anne Rawls’ interaction order theory, Randall Collins’ interaction ritual chains theory, Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of social performance, and Jonathan Turner’s theory of interpersonal behavior. The paper’s point of departure is an idea that there is a line ascending from the sociological theory of human interactions to the tradition represented in social science by Durkheim and Goffman. The discussion opens with an attempt to depict and classify the realities of “social intercourse” occurrences, followed with an assessment of its basic characteristics. Having displayed analytical and conceptual problems that the phenomenon “social intercourse” generates for sociological theory, the paper turns to a comparative analysis of the four noted theoretical interpretations of interaction in society. The outcomes of such an analysis drive authors to present and explore the research dilemmas that configure current theoretical sociological analysis of “social intercourse”. The closing part of the paper delineates the relations between the sociology of “social intercourse” with the sociology of everyday life and the sociology of emotions.

Сергей Рапопорт (1934–2017): жизнь в социологии

This paper is dedicated to the memory of well-known sociologist and cultural scholar Sergey S. Rapoport (1934–2017), a bright and profound social scientist. Living inVilnius, he collaborated with sociologists from bothLithuaniaandRussia. Sergey Rapoport published a number of works on the problems of sociology of culture, sociology of family, sociology of the intelligentsia, sociology of everyday life, etc. He is also known as a researcher of the sociology and ideology of totalitarianism. Throughout the years, his scientific work stays relevant.

Resolution And Continuity Of Primary Health Care: Reference And Counter-Reference In The Sus (Unified Health System)

Objective: Understand the implications of reference and counter-references related to the resolution and continuity of primary health care (PHC). Methods: This is the Study of Cases of Multiple Holistic qualitative, based on the Comprehensive Sociology of Everyday Life, with the participation of 41 professionals and managers of PHC in the municipality of the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Results: Although the system of reference and counter-reference has the purpose of facilitating the process of (re) forward, which is not the reality of the researched scenarios. Users suffer from a lack of population coverage by the Family Health Strategy, with the lack of consultation quotas for medical specialists and other professionals; of procedures; of tests and medicines; lack of professional commitment and training of professionals in order to work in the Unified Health System (SUS). Scarce resources and poor organization in the system of reference and counter-reference concretize many problems in health care networks in solving the problems in the PHC and accessibility. Conclusion: Although the SUS dating from the last century and being legislatively speaking quite resolute, still suffers from a lack of resources and inability responding to every demand by municipal services. The implementation of SUS goes beyond the mere extension of quotas, material resources and for diagnostics, infrastructure and human resources. It depends on the paradigm shift: the user as the center of attention in Health.

Образовательные практики в концептуальном поле социологии

<p>В статье анализируется феномен образовательных практик в современном образовательном пространстве. Образовательные практики рассматриваются в контексте модернизации российской системы образования. Особое внимание при этом уделяется информатизации образовательного процесса, которая способствует формированию новых видов образовательных практик. </p><p>Анализ проблемы образовательных практик осуществляется сквозь призму социологии повседневности и социологии образования, которые позволяют более детально изучить особенности феномена образовательных практик.</p><p>Образовательные практики трактуются как совокупность опривыченных действий, навыков, сконструированных в условиях приобретения и усвоения определенных знаний, включающих в себя также типизированные способы поиска и отбора новой информации с помощью различных средств и ресурсов и типизированные способы взаимодействия с другими участниками учебного процесса. Образовательные практики отражают некие привычки учиться определенным образом, сформированные в ситуации решения познавательно-исследовательских задач. Они актуализируются в процессе интенсификации познавательного интереса и активности индивида. В рамках данного подхода появляется возможность зафиксировать и изучить спектр образовательных практик, распространенных в современном образовательном пространстве, с указанием особенностей их объективных и субъективных параметров. </p>

‘No Condition IS Permanent': Informal Transport Workers and Labour Precarity in Africa's Largest City

AbstractThis article pieces together an understanding of everyday life grounded in the social imagination and everyday experiences of informal transport workers (ITWs) in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city. The article has two core objectives: to elevate the everyday practices of ITWs to the status of a critical concept in order to advance a sociology of everyday life, and to ground these practices on the precarious rhythm of everyday life as lived by people with the experience of radical uncertainty. By using crisis as a context of action and meaning, the article shows how uncertainty serves as a social resource that ITWs leverage to negotiate the precarious nature of everyday life and to make the most of their time. This foregrounding of uncertainty enhances our hitherto tenuous grasp of labour precarity, informal agency and the everyday struggle for survival in Africa's informal transport sector.

Political Crisis: Conflict Between The Types Of Dimensions Of The Political

In recent years, political crisis has aggravated especially in postSoviet countries. One of the most important tasks in curbing this situation is by finding the appropriate tools for describing and explaining it. The main aim of this paper is to provide an approach to the political crisis in the light of the coexistence of different types of dimensions of the political. The methodological base of research in this context is the post-marxist theory of rupture (S. Zizek, A.Badiou A., J. Ahambnen), hegemony (A. Gramsci) and ahonizm (C. Mouffe), sociology of everyday life and frame analysis, discourse analysis, and the theory of linguistic determinism. In general, this analysis focuses on anthropological dimension (near the spatial and temporal). This is especially based on the the political subjectification, which forms three basic types of correlation of the political. Every type of correlation forms the symbolic and semantic field simultaneously. Thus, such an approach expands the model of interpretation of the political crisis. In addition, it also expands the political phenomenon particularly. It can be interpreted as a multivariance in the context of three types of dimensions of the political.