Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life

This original and innovative volume offers a basic introduction to the psychological study of the conduct of everyday life in contemporary society. It moves psychological theory and research practice out of the laboratory and into the real world, focusing on the question of how human beings live their everyday life as active subjects and using this as a basis for understanding the dilemmas and contradictions we are confronted with in our lives. The chapters both trace the development of psychological theories of the everyday and offer comparative empirical studies of a variety of everyday practices. Drawing on developments across the social and human sciences, and written by an international group of scholars from a number related disciplines, this collection demonstrates how the study of subjects in the context of their everyday life can contribute to the development of psychological theory, methodology, and practice. Constructed to support an upper-level course on the social psychology of everyday life, the book will also appeal to scholars and researchers throughout psychology and connected branches of the humanities and social sciences.