Daniel Cefaï

Making Sense of Politics in Public Spaces: The Phenomenology of Political Experiences and Activities

This chapter seeks to describe how ordinary actors define and master their political situatedness, build their political universes, decide what is relevant in various ways, reason about politics, how they are motivated, and how they act.

The Ethnographic Text as Literary Form

The microsociological dimensions of the ethnographic text, considered as a literary form similar to the novel, are studied in congruence with Schutz’s methodological reflection on first-order and second-order meaning orders and relevance structures.