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The study of everyday life consists of an array of perspectives, and while a unified theoretical focus might be difficult to exact with certainty, these methods can all be said to approach the study of the everyday from a micro perspective (Adler, Adler, and Fontana 1987). Everyday sociology is one example of such an approach, one that concerns “the ways in which human beings construct order across their social situations” (Douglas 1980:12). This approach maintains that the individual accomplishment of meaning in social settings remains vital to our understandings of the social.
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Schneider, C. (2015). Meaning Making Online. In: Bude, H., Dellwing, M., Grills, S. (eds) Kleine Geheimnisse. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00487-3_6
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