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- Title
Introduction.
- Authors
Lidz, Charles W.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the December 1989 issue of the journal Qualitative Sociology. The issue presents four specialized studies of social and cultural elements of mundane reality. Many practitioners of mainstream sociology will be quick to object to such studies. Once again, some will say, qualitative sociologists are wasting their energies on irrelevant trivia. The development of a systematic body of sociological knowledge requires research into the mundane aspects of social activities. It is precisely through studies of this kind, which attend to details of social and cultural life because of their direct import for a sociological curiosity, that one can examine most immediately the fundamentals of social life. It is when sociology gives free rein to its disciplinary imagination, unconstrained by a concern for practical consequences, that it constructs its purest data. Various scholars, including many social scientists have made much of the biological conditioning of human culture.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGY; QUALITY of life; SOCIAL interaction; INTELLECTUAL life; MANNERS &; customs; CULTURE
- Publication
Qualitative Sociology, 1989, Vol 12, Issue 4, p333
- ISSN
0162-0436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/BF00989395