Exploring everyday life

Description:

The numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisible--and yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world of the everyday and an instruction manual for first-time explorers. Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk demonstrate how to use a broad array of ethnographic tools to discover, map, and document new and unexplored territories and guide readers through the process of cultural analysis. Their concrete examples shed light on how a study or paper assignment can evolve and point to how cultural analysis of everyday life can be practically applied in business, government, and other arenas outside of academia.--Publisher website.

subjects: Ethnology,  Methodology,  Ethnology, methodology,  General,  Human geography,  Research,  Social sciences -> anthropology -> general anthropology,  Social sciences -> social sciences -> methodology,  Physical & earth sciences -> geography -> human/cultural geography,  Social sciences -> sociology -> research methods & statistics