General information
Code: P5-0183 Kamin
Period: 4.4.2019
Project leader at FDV: prof.dr. Tanja Kamin
Research activity: Social sciences
Abstract
The research programme is focused on studying everyday life in its macrosocial context. We are interested in how micro practices of everyday life are socially shaped and how social structures (macro level) are (re)produced at the level of everyday life (micro level). But since we treat individuals, social groups and movements as social actors too, we aim to analyse and demonstrate their capacity to respond, cope, resist, and potentially overcome socially constituted challenges in their constantly changing environment. The research programme is based on the analysis of social processes, shaped by the late modern process of individualisation where socially constituted risks, challenges, and vulnerabilities are being perceived as a matter of individual responsibility. On the grounds of these processes and conditions starting with economic crisis, fuelled by environmental degradation and climate change and an ageing population, and recently intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the reawakening of global political tensions and instabilities, everyday life is exposed to significant risks and uncertainties that need to be addressed at a structural level. Changes in labour market, familialisation, environmental and health risks, (unequal) opportunities to access and gain credible information and communication competences, (unequal) access to resources, rights and wellbeing, technologies of normalisation, etc. produce and legitimise asymmetrical power relations and inequalities, stigma, and various sorts of social exclusions. We focus on how these processes mark (the most vulnerable) individuals in their everyday lives: their health, life course and transition, their family life, intimate partnerships, and sexuality, consumption and their social and political activism. Our research interest is focused on otherwise overlooked and understudied aspects of particular topics and/or underrepresented social groups. We will explore subjective experiences of social barriers, exclusions, discrimination, and lack of opportunities as well as subjective adjustments, coping, resisting, individual and collective initiatives for social change, political and social justice and equality. The programme is based on a multidisciplinary analysis of everyday life. It requires the use of various analytical methodological procedures (quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting and analysing data). With regards to the research questions, we mainly employ biographical methods, in-depth individual and group interviews, critical discourse analysis, multimodal analysis, and content analysis, as well as ethnographic research procedures. Among the methods are also survey analysis, computer assisted analysis of large corpuses of texts, and document analysis (archival, theoretical, historical, and policy analysis), which grounds a study of the present in a historical perspective and as such provides an important interpretative background.
Research Organisation
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18987
Researchers
https://cris.cobiss.net/ecris/si/en/project/18987
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