URBAN DAILY LIFE IN THE FOCUS OF SOCIAL THEORIES OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article attempts a theoretical understanding of the phenomenon of urban everyday life. A brief justification of the relevance of studying urban life through the analysis of everyday life is given. The development of ideas about everyday life is considered first in the philosophical works of E. Husserl, and then by A. Schutz, I. Hoffmann, A. Lefebvre and P. Shtompka. The position of each author is reviewed and criticized within the framework of the objectives of this article. Husserl's view of everyday life as the order in which things relate to each other in time and space provides a basis for defining everyday life, but it turns out to be too broad. From A. According to Schutz, we discover the fundamental principle of the formation and reproduction of everyday life - the social distribution of knowledge. From the works of A. Lefebvre, we take an understanding of everyday life as a common denominator for all spheres of human life and an idea of its cyclical dynamics. I. Hoffman describes in detail the sphere of everyday interpersonal contacts "face to face". P. Shtompka gives a number of defining features of everyday life: it is associated with people's relationships that repeat themselves in space and time, are not always conscious and sometimes ritualized. The result of this work is the description and definition of the concept of "urban everyday life".