Mundane Methods

Innovative Ways to Research the Everyday

Bibliographic Data

ID20433852
AuthorsSophie Woodward (0000-0001-5339-8153, corresponding author), Sophie id_orcid Woodward (corresponding author)
EditorsHelen Holmes (0000-0002-4918-2007), Sarah Marie Hall
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueMundane Methods (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherManchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.7765/9781526152732
OpenAlexW4243280167
ISBN9781526152732
Open LibraryOL35848264M
LanguageEN
Citations received23

Collections have been associated with special consumption, consisting of items separated off from use (Belk, 1995), and yet houses are full of collections of objects which are often everyday and include both the used and the unused (Woodward and Greasley, 2015). This chapter explores how exploring these everyday collections is an approach which allows us to understand the complexities of everyday consumption, as we are able to explore the relationship between the unused, the cherished and the habitually used. Taking examples such as wardrobes, cupboards, garages, music collections and fridges, the approach is outlined in terms of the methods it involves (a combination of collection audits, object mapping and object biographies) as well as the possibilities this approach affords for how we can understand everyday lives.

cupboards · everyday consumption · Everyday life · fridges · garages · Material culture · music collections · object biography · object mapping · wardrobes · Consumer Behavior in Brand Consumption and Identification · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies · Crafts, Textile, and Design · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Libraries and Information Services · Psychology · Comportement humain · Ethnology · Human behavior · Méthodologie · Recherche · Research · Social sciences · Social Sciences Research · Society · Sociologie du quotidien · Sociology · Sociology - Urban