If you live to the age of 85, you will have been alive for 31,025 days. One day has 1440 minutes, so if you multiply 1440 times 31,025 days you get 44,676,000 minutes of life. If you drink two cups of coffee (starting at the age of 20), you will drink around 48,000 cups of coffee. If you start your day with a bowl of oatmeal at age 20, you will consume more than 24,000 bowls of oatmeal. I read a statistic on the Internet recently, on eMarketer.retail, which claimed the average consumer in America eats dinner out 2.1 times a week. That adds up to 109 times a year. In a year, if you multiply 365 days times 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) you get 1095 meals, which means we dine out for one out of every ten dinners we eat.At this moment he wished to be a man without qualities. But this is probably not so different from what other people sometimes feel too. After all, by the time they have reached the middle of their lifeās journey few people remember how they have managed to arrive at themselves, at their amusements, their point of view, their wife, character, occupation and successes, but they cannot help feeling that not much is likely to change any more. It might even be asserted that they have been cheated, for one can nowhere discover any sufficient reason for everythingās having come about as it has. It might just as well have turned out differently. The events of peopleās lives have, after all, only to the least degree originated in them, having generally depended on all sorts of circumstances such as the moods, the life or death of quite different people, and have, as it were, only at the given point of time come hurrying towards themā¦. Something has had its way with them like a flypaper with a fly; it has caught them fast, here catching a little hair, there hampering their movements, and has gradually enveloped them, until they lie, buried under a thick coating that has only the remotest resemblance to their original shape. (Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities)
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Perspectives on Everyday Life: A Cross Disciplinary Cultural Analysis makes the argument for studying everyday life through a combination of introductory theoretical approaches and a grouping of applications to specific aspects of American culture. The first part of the book addresses the idea of everyday life as considered by distinguished thinkers who have written books about everyday life, such as Sigmund Freud, Fernand Braudel, Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, and others. The second part of the book uses theories dealt with in the first part of the book to explore objectsāsuch as suitcases, alarm clocks, milk, pacifiers, pressure cookers, smart speakers, and super-glueāand their part in the various rituals of everyday life in America, revealing their hidden meanings.
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Everyday life Routines Rituals HabitsData2. Perspectives on Everyday Life
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Everyday life Kula Psychoanalysis Unconscious UlyssesEveryday life is a key concept in cultural studies and is a specialized subject in the field of sociology. Some argue that, motivated by capitalism and industrialismās degrading effects on human existence and perception, writers and artists of the nineteenth century turned more toward personal reflection and the portrayal of everyday life represented in their writings and art to a noticeably greater degree than in past works, for example Renaissance literatureās interest in hagiography and politics. Other theorists dispute this argument based on a long history of writings about daily life which can be seen in works from Ancient Greece, Medieval Christianity, and the Catholic Enlightenment. In the study of everyday life gender has been an important factor in its conceptions. Some theorists regard women as the quintessential representatives and victims of everyday life. It is the non-negotiable reality that exists amongst all social groupings without discrimination and is ...
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- Cover
- Front Matter
- Part I. Perspectives on Everyday Life
- Part II. Everyday Life in America