The Practice of Everyday Life
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The Practice of Everyday Life is a seminal work of cultural theory in which Michel de Certeau analyzes how ordinary people tactically navigate and subtly subvert the structures of everyday social and cultural life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Practice of Everyday Life canonical | 2 |
| tactics of everyday life | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practice of Everyday Life Context triple: [Michel de Certeau, notableWork, The Practice of Everyday Life]
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The Arcades Project
The Arcades Project is Walter Benjamin’s unfinished, posthumously published magnum opus that assembles notes and reflections on 19th-century Parisian arcades to explore modernity, capitalism, and urban life.
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La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.
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C.
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality is Michel Foucault’s multi-volume study that analyzes how power, knowledge, and discourse have shaped modern understandings and regulation of sex and sexuality.
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D.
The Field of Cultural Production
The Field of Cultural Production is a major work by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu that analyzes how artistic and literary fields function as structured spaces of power, competition, and symbolic capital.
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E.
The Tacit Dimension
The Tacit Dimension is a 1966 philosophical work by Michael Polanyi that explores the idea that much of human knowledge is implicit and cannot be fully articulated in explicit terms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Practice of Everyday Life Target entity description: The Practice of Everyday Life is a seminal work of cultural theory in which Michel de Certeau analyzes how ordinary people tactically navigate and subtly subvert the structures of everyday social and cultural life.
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A.
The Arcades Project
The Arcades Project is Walter Benjamin’s unfinished, posthumously published magnum opus that assembles notes and reflections on 19th-century Parisian arcades to explore modernity, capitalism, and urban life.
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B.
La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement
La Distinction: Critique sociale du jugement is Pierre Bourdieu’s influential sociological study analyzing how tastes in culture and consumption reflect and reinforce social class distinctions.
-
C.
The History of Sexuality
The History of Sexuality is Michel Foucault’s multi-volume study that analyzes how power, knowledge, and discourse have shaped modern understandings and regulation of sex and sexuality.
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D.
The Field of Cultural Production
The Field of Cultural Production is a major work by sociologist Pierre Bourdieu that analyzes how artistic and literary fields function as structured spaces of power, competition, and symbolic capital.
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E.
The Tacit Dimension
The Tacit Dimension is a 1966 philosophical work by Michael Polanyi that explores the idea that much of human knowledge is implicit and cannot be fully articulated in explicit terms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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work of cultural theory ⓘ |
| author | Michel de Certeau ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
everyday creativity
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la perruque ⓘ place ⓘ poaching ⓘ practice ⓘ space ⓘ strategies ⓘ tactics ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | France ⓘ |
| EnglishEditionPublicationYear | 1984 ⓘ |
| EnglishEditionPublisher | University of California Press ⓘ |
| EnglishTranslator | Steven Rendall ⓘ |
| field |
anthropology
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cultural studies ⓘ human geography ⓘ philosophy ⓘ sociology ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | 1980 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
chapter "Walking in the City"
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chapter on la perruque ⓘ chapter on reading as poaching ⓘ |
| influenced |
cultural studies
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geography of everyday life ⓘ media studies ⓘ postmodern theory ⓘ subaltern studies ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| notableFor |
analysis of everyday practices as forms of resistance
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distinction between tactics and strategies ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | French ⓘ |
| originalTitle |
L'invention du quotidien. 1. Arts de faire
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linked to:
L’invention du quotidien
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| publicationYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| publisher | Éditions Gallimard ⓘ |
| subject |
consumption
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cultural practices ⓘ cultural theory ⓘ everyday life ⓘ everyday resistance ⓘ ordinary people ⓘ power relations ⓘ reading practices ⓘ social practices ⓘ space and place ⓘ tactics and strategies ⓘ urban life ⓘ walking in the city ⓘ |
| translatedInto | English ⓘ |
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linked to: The Practice of Everyday Life