ABSTRACT
Sociologists interested in the production and reproduction of “everyday life” has focused analytic attention on a panoply of different subjects, via a range of different theoretical traditions. Despite increasingly widespread participation in recreational running in the United Kingdom and other advanced industrial societies, however, there remains a relative dearth of qualitative research into the everyday experiences. Sociological conceptualizations of self and identity have been subjected to intense debate during recent decades. In order to focus upon the mutability, fluidity, and context-dependency of identities as emergent within the interactional milieu, the authors draw upon symbolic interactionist perspectives. Collaborative autoethnography or joint autoethnography is a protean and wide-ranging approach, sometimes involving just two co-researchers, whilst at the other end of the spectrum lays the involvement of many, even an entire community in the case of community autoethnographies. Moreover, Stryker has also pointed out that some identities have more salience than others for individuals, generating a hierarchical relationship between them.
