Conceptualizing Everyday Life

Biographies of ordinary people are certainly immersed in the sea of everyday life. In one of his early works I have sought to draw attention to the fact that the description of the daily routine in a more or less chronological order is one of the Central layers of any biographical narrative (golofast, 1997). Despite the generality of this retelling, the presence of elements of the genre and of the plot, the routine of everyday life dominates the text. And even when it comes to social events (and there are surprisingly few), still we are talking about the routine, only this time at the macro level - the routine social processes. If the researcher is interested in social change, in vain to look for traces of it in direct estimates and descriptions of the authors of the narratives. Most likely it will be the formulas and stereotypes of popular political or media discourse. In autobiographies dominates the life cycle, path, road, and other metaphors of individual life. This is true even when life is presented as an adventure, as the ascent to success or life failure (Dmitriev and Sokolov, 2000). The researcher must have a certain amount of conceptual schemes, more or less integrated system of views on everyday life and its changes, produced, perhaps, regardless of the practice of reading biographies, to learn to read and problematito intensify the biographical narrative.Without claiming to solve this problem in a modest version of these notes, I intend to draw attention to the bottomlessness of this thematic area.