Talk:Everyday life

Article scope and Wikipedia principles

This article is an ambitious attempt to generalise the daily conduct of life as lived by nearly 8 billion people the world over. As Wikipedia states above, "Encyclopedic content must be verifiable through citations to reliable sources." With this in mind, material and statistics published by international organisations like the UN, UNESCO, WFO and WHO could provide suitable reference material to integrate, and to substantiate the article's many conjectures and generalisations, e.g.

• "Most eat two or three meals in a day"
• "Working time (apart from shift work) mostly involves a daily schedule" (misleading as shift work typically entails a day-to-day schedule)
• "This produces the daily rush hours experienced by many millions, and the *drive time focused on by radio broadcasters*" (triviality?)
• "urban people live differently from rural folk" ("folk" has derogatory implications)

The article reflects an overwhelmingly Western, developed-world bias from the very beginning (see above). Perhaps worth reconsidering the informative value of the broader generalisations, such as "lifestyles vary and different people spend their days differently". — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wyatte61 (talk • contribs) 12:45, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

Good lord. Mercster (talk) 01:44, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Personal life

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don't merge this article with the article for "personal life"!

"Everyday life" is a specific notion of the quotidian that has been *very* important to various historians, social scientists, and philosophers. It's essential to understanding certain social historians, the situationists, Henri Lefebvre...

It would be a disservice to all to merge the two. 129.174.73.95 23:21, 15 October 2006 (UTC)tad

I've recently done quite a bit of work on Personal life and feel it was a mistake to merge it with Daily life and Everyday life. I believe the German article Alltag coverns the Everyday life concept very well. Any chance of working further on this???-Ipigott (talk) 17:06, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

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What direction to go on this article?

Is this a signpost article? Should we list common elements of every day life? How about life in one country/region compared to another? Or one gender to another? Is this article also somewhat about identity? What can we find out about "Daily life's sociology", which is mentioned in the lede? Looking at the already cited sources, and the further reading section, this looks like a technical sociological approach might be most suitable. --NickPenguin_(contribs) 03:43, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Very difficult. I think so, too, the article gets its justification for an encyclopedia article from the fact that there is sociological research, so this should have adequate room. But why not include other sections on typical everyday activities. What about the idea to include sections on circadian rhythm, habit and ritual? --^Melody _Lavender 06:07, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I did Internet and Everyday Life as one of my units this semester. Looking at the notes I wrote down, some other keywords and concepts that seem relevant include: how we define ourselves; how we conceptualise our relationship to the world and others; how we generate, establish, and interpret meaning; sociological and psychological bases for behavioral choices; what we think and believe; how our past has inform our form of reality; mundane; norm; routine; pattern; natural; obvious; "have to"; habitual.--Coin945 (talk) 16:09, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

How about the concept of normality? HalfHat 22:36, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I think focusing on the sociological concept of everyday life is the best way to give this article any value. David Condrey ^{log talk} 10:01, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

There is also psychological research in this subject area, see one source below. Halfhat (talk · contribs) if you can find any secondary sources on scientific research on normality it could possibly be included.--^Melody _Lavender 06:20, 16 November 2014 (UTC)

I agree that this is a signpost article of sorts. From a sociological perspective, I think we can make many connections to other concepts, and to other disciplinary perspectives (such as Freud being more psych than soc). I do think that social norms/control/deviance should be connected, and that more diverse ideas of everyday life that contrast this Western/Global North-leaning perspective with other perspectives (e.g. Central and Northern African, Central and Southern American, Eastern European, Caribbean, Southeast Asian, and so on). I will be working on this with a small group of students this semester and welcome input from others. OnMyThirdLife 04:50, 2 September 2023(UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by OnMyThirdLife (talk • contribs)

Images

What about just using pictures of generic crowds, I don't like the look of the current series of images. HalfHat 22:35, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

I will be sourcing some more diverse images to correspond with the additions I plan to make to this article (and am practicing how to communicate here!). (OnMyThirdLife (talk) 18:20, 2 September 2023 (UTC)

Full text online sources for expansion

• Quellette, Judith A. and Wendy Wood. Habit and Intention in Everyday Life: The Multiple Processes by Which Past Behavior Predicts Future Behavior Psychological Bulletin 1998, Vol. 124, No. 1, 54-74.

Wiki Education assignment: Political Sociology

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Wiki Education assignment: Self and Society

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