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Routines, Rituals and Reflexes : The Powerful Undercurrents in Everyday Life

Löfgren, Orvar LU (2024) In Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought p.26-42
Abstract
Small routines and ingrained cultural reflexes as well as micro-rituals form an often unnoticed or ignored flow in everyday life. They acquire their power by being taken for granted and embodied. In situations of conflict, crisis or change, they may suddenly be noticed and become problematic. This chapter looks at how moves, affect, sensations and stuff interact in the making and unmaking of routines and micro-rituals. This chapter begins by going through some of the stations of the domestic morning journey and processes of routinization. In the second part of the chapter, situations when routines are made visible as they break down or are challenged are discussed and examined in order to explore their hidden power.
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Routines, everyday life, the unmarked
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Against the Background of Social Reality : Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked - Defaults, Commonplaces, and the Sociology of the Unmarked
series title
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
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Lombardo, Carmelo and Sabetta, Lorenzo
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16 pages
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Routledge
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  • scopus:85168895996
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9781032550862
9780367433574
9781003002642
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10.4324/9781003002642-4
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English
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