ABSTRACT
Alfred Schutz notes that ‘the starting point of social science is to be found in ordinary social life’ (1972: 141). This is the taken-for-granted everyday world in which we live and carry on our day-to-day affairs. One of the elements in this taken-for-granted everyday world is housing. In this world, we take for granted the ways of understanding and doing:
It means to accept until further notice our knowledge of certain states of affairs as unquestionably plausible…Common sense thinking simply takes
for granted, until counterevidence appears, not only the world of physical objects but also the sociocultural world into which we are born and in which we grow up. This world of everyday life is indeed the unquestioned but always questionable matrix within which all our inquiries start and end.
