Sociology of everyday life

Objectives

This course presents the various theories that govern the interface between social and interpersonal communication. It guides students in consolidating their theoretical knowledge in the field of sociological analysis through an effective and controlled deconstruction of unexamined perception in everyday life. As far as the minimum level of competence, students are led to master not only the typologies of social interaction, but also the forms of symbolism and ritual creation that underlie the analysis of the rationale and significance of social action. It also enables students to analyse the logic behind the forces that constitute ordinary social reality through decoding the function of what is obvious in illusion and outlook. As such, the course evinces theories of social interaction and dramaturgy, as well as formalist and phenomenological approaches to understanding the principle of non transparency and the assumption of the false immediacy of social life

Program

-Theories and Conceptualizations and Methodologies for the study of Everyday Life The construction of everyday life in structure and practice Time and the perception of cyclical and fragmentary time The norm, the (de)construction of normalcy and commonality The role of what is banal and exceptional in illusion and outlook Beliefs, values and representations of the conduct of others Life stories and individual trajectories in the social sciences II- Theories and paradigms in the Sociology of Everyday Life The normative codification of places and contexts Classic paradigms in the analysis of everyday life: Formalism and structuralism Ethno-methodologies and symbolic interaction Processes and types of interaction The drama and stigmatism of E. Goffman Interaction rituals, routines e ritualism III-Selected topics and studies of everyday life De Certeau and the reconfiguration of culture in everyday life The body and the presentation of ritual forms of being and seeming

Teaching Methodologies

Given the objectives delineated, the course is based on an approach based on the specialized classic and modern
theories of the phenomenon of everyday life experience. It presents analysis and interpretation of everyday life
experiences through the presentation of case studies, the interpretation of situations with specialized witnesses
and the analysis of life trajectories. This combination of evaluation methods represents the logical corollary of the
teaching methods implemented. Classes follow an interactive model, and questions and examples accompany the
presentations. As such, the evaluation is based on three substantially different elements, including a written test
(40%), a thematic presentation (25%) and the elaboration of a short essay on a case study (35%

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