Everyday life dissolves the institutional-interactional and private-public divides in social theory.

Evidence

The notion of “everyday” is often used to refer to a familiar world, a world of practical interest, a world of practices with which we are socialized in order to manage in the system. In everyday life, sociological distinctions between “institutional” and “interactional,” between ideology and discourse, and between “private” and “public” spheres of life merge and form a complex of social relations and situations. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1471

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Microscopic everyday interactions are the threads that bind society. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 47; Neoliberal homo oeconomicus dissolves the citizen-bourgeois split that defined liberal democratic political life. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 546; Indoctrination dissolves the felt distinction between public and private policy (+2 more)

Broader Connections