Theoretical Approaches to the Everyday Flashcards by Ben Lammin | Brainscape

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Joe Moran - ‘History, Memory and the Everyday’ (Secondary)

Detail Joe Moran’s perspective on History, Memory and the Everyday

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Joe Moran - ‘History, Memory and the Everyday’ (Secondary)

Lefebvre - 1970s - Everyday as the intersection of modernity and residual. Modernity post-war was expressed through materialism: electrical goods, synthetic fibres, designer decor.
Everyday is modernity’s ‘embarrassing underside’ - does not keep pace with change, ‘shot through with vestiges of heritage’. Culture lags behind modernity. Everyday exists intrinsically in suburbia.
Everyday is often treated (wrongly) as synonymous with working class culture.
Memory - ‘emotional, spontaneous, unselfconscious’. Compared to history, which is narrow, linear and causal.’
‘Rubbish’ - site of historical intrigue -> discarded artefacts which pervade across time.

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Joe Moran - ‘History, Memory and the Everyday’ (Secondary)

Detail Joe Moran’s perspective on History, Memory and the Everyday

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Joe Moran - ‘History, Memory and the Everyday’ (Secondary)

Lefebvre - 1970s - Everyday as the intersection of modernity and residual. Modernity post-war was expressed through materialism: electrical goods, synthetic fibres, designer decor.
Everyday is modernity’s ‘embarrassing underside’ - does not keep pace with change, ‘shot through with vestiges of heritage’. Culture lags behind modernity. Everyday exists intrinsically in suburbia.
Everyday is often treated (wrongly) as synonymous with working class culture.
Memory - ‘emotional, spontaneous, unselfconscious’. Compared to history, which is narrow, linear and causal.’
‘Rubbish’ - site of historical intrigue -> discarded artefacts which pervade across time.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Where does Goffman look for the everyday?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Erving Goffman - focused on unwritten rules of behaviour - symbolic interactionalism.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

What does Diane Watson suggest about the everyday?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Diane Watson - home as the site of exchange for social, political and economic tangents - the icon of the everyday.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

What does Peter Redman suggest about romance?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Romance is a socially constructed experience that is fully located in the social structure of power relations.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

How does Garfinkel locate the everyday?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Harold Garfinkel - everyday conventions were found by disrupting them. Think Young and Wilmott.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Detail some of the traditional authorities on everyday, and their thoughts.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Georg Lukacs as first agent of everyday history. Inspired Heidegger - who defined everyday as banal.

Michel de Certeau - 1980s-90s: opposed Foucault’s suggestion that power’s ubiquity excluded opportunities for resistance. Opposition has to read ‘against the grain

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

What does Foucault imply about visual culture?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Foucault - Visual power significant - I.e. Importance of royal imagery.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

What does Habermas suggest about the notion of the ‘public’?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Habermas - Concept of the public shifted from the social elite to a democratic model. Aided by technology.

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Where do Bennett and Watson locate the everyday?

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Bennett and Watson (Secondary)

Site of sociological enquiry post-war. Focus on the ‘poor and nameless’ rather than the ‘rich and famous’.

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General Information

What is the perspective of Guy Debord?

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General Information

French Marxist thinker, believed that everyday is inherently surrealistic, fantastical, infused with the irrational and the spectacular (vs the rationalistic model given by Weber)

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Rita Felski - The Invention of the Everyday

What are the key points made in Felski’s article?

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Rita Felski - The Invention of the Everyday

‘Everyday life simply is, indisputably: the essential, taken-for-granted continuum of mundane activities’
‘Everyday life is also a secular and democratic concept. Secular because it conveys the sense of a world leached of transcendence; the everyday is everyday because it is no longer connected to the miraculous, the magical, or the sacred’
‘Everyday life weighs heaviest on women’
For Lefebvre, this cyclical structure of everyday life is its quintessential feat.
Habit becomes the enemy of an authentic life.

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