ABSTRACT
According to standard definitions, to describe social forces or social relations as “everyday” is to regard them as ordinary, routine or commonplace. The everyday connotes the mundane and the banal and references circumstances and events that are unexceptional, boring, uneventful and repetitious. The everyday is the world of the taken for granted and the unexamined. Everyday worlds are those scenarios held at a distance under the scrutiny of anthropologists investigating the unselfconscious ways of a distant people or those daily routines and folkways under the more local and contemporary scrutiny of the ethnomethodologists.
