Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life Berit Follestad Paul Gilbert is Professor of

Paul Gilbert is Professor of Psychology in the Mental Health Research Unit at Kingsway Hospital

in his father's tent-making workshop

and the rigors of internship and residency

and as a species

Qualitative Sociology as Everyday Life Berit Follestad Paul Gilbert is Professor ofHow can a person draw upon his or her sociological knowledge in everyday life? This volume examines the ways that sociological understanding helps with daily experience. Each contributor works in the qualitative tradition, and the essays reveal how their observations of everyday life can affect research agendas, and vice versa, and reflect the desire to understand experiences in a broader context rather than as random and isolated events. The essays