everyday life
A highly contested term invented for the purpose of registering the effects on individuals of social and cultural change on both a micro and macro scale. Its importance can readily be seen in discussions of the impact of new technology. For example, when email was introduced it transformed (almost overnight) the way business is conducted and had a similarly significant flow-on effect on social life as well. It outmoded the letter and substantially changed the way we think about the telephone. In other words it changed the way life is conducted at its most mundane and basic level. This is what the concept of everyday life tries to capture: life as a set of routines, ... ...
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