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Sociology and Everyday Life: Problemizing the Relationship?
Sociology and Everyday Life: Problemizing the Relationship?

Author(s): Kolyo Koev
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Traditions and Transitions in Sociology; sociology and everyday life; self-problemization; modern sociology and the sociological knowledge; sociological knowledge and everyday reality; methodology and sociology; Max Weber’s sociology; “sociologization” of

Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the mutual problemization between sociology and everyday life, which in itself should be interpreted as a relationship of incessant self-problemization. This same relationship is taken up as a significant constructive principle in the development of the conceptual apparatus of modern sociology. From such a perspective the assertion is mantained, that should we desire to identify the social image of sociological knowledge at one point of its development or another, we must take into consideration the nature of its correlation with everyday life by identifying the critical points of problemization. Conversely, should we elect to study one aspect of the everyday or another by its own measure, we must always be alert to the blurry, shifting boundary between sociological knowledge and everyday reality, and to be methodologically prepared for the lurking danger of sociologization of everyday life. The historical roots of the principle of self-problemization are outlined in the context of Max Weber’s sociology. The second part of the paper deals with a crucially significant borderline case of “sociologization” of everyday knowledge, one that throws light on the contemporary sociological situation.

  • Issue Year: 34/2002
  • Issue No: Special
  • Page Range: 55-62
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English