Everyday Life and Cultural Theory

by Ben Highmore

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.

Genres: Sociology, Theory, Philosophy, Nonfiction

208 pages, Paperback

First published August 11, 2001

Reviews

[Malcolm · Rating 3 out of 5]

The sociology of everyday life is becoming quite chic, yet there have been theorists of the everyday for most of the last 100 years or more. Highmore has set out to introduce and explain those approaches in a text suitable for upper level undergraduates. Useful.

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

Feels like cheating...THANK YOU.

[• Domeniko • · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.65

[Savannah · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was helpful for the research I was conducting on artist Sarah Sze and her use of the distilled everyday evident in her installations.

[K · Rating 3 out of 5]

hard-to-swallow :(