Sociologies of Everyday Life

Sociologies of everyday life are qualitative sociologies that examine small-group interaction and place a primacy on understanding and reporting the lives of the members of everyday life as they see it or as close as possible to it. They all share a common concern with the members' perspective about society and a qualitative methodological approach to the study of human interaction. Sociologies of everyday life encompass a variety of sociologies, most of which never refer to or associate themselves with the name sociologies of everyday life. The term itself comes from a book by Jack Douglas and some of his graduate students (Douglas et al. 1980).

[Page 774]The origins of the sociologies of everyday life are diverse. Douglas attributes its origin to the nineteenth-century Scottish moral ...