" It shifts the focus of its sociology from aggregate social behaviors to individual (*) "ways of operating."
This work uses the examples of a secretary writing a love letter on company time or a cabinet maker borrowing a lathe from work as personal or "popular culture" entering and existing alongside disciplinary spaces, a subversive gesture which the author calls la perruque. In a chapter entitled "Making Do" the author distinguishes between "procedures of consumption" and "use." Utilizing the work of Foucault and Bourdieu this work utilizes the poetics of procedures, tactics and strategies to interpret common activities like writing, talking and the flaneur "walking in the city." It shifts the focus of its sociology from aggregate social behaviors to individual (*) "ways of operating." For 10 points name this 1984 work of sociology, a foundational text in cultural studies written by Michel de Certeau.
This work uses the examples of a secretary writing a love letter on company time or a cabinet maker borrowing a lathe from work as personal or "popular culture" entering and existing alongside disciplinary spaces, a subversive gesture which the author calls la perruque.
The Practice of Everyday Life