MICHAEL HVIID JACOBSEN is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Studies in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Organization, Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published widely in the field of everyday life and sociology.

• The Everyday: Introduction to an Introduction; M. Hviid JacobsenPART I: FOUNDATIONThe Chicago School of Sociology; A. Jørgensen and D. SmithAmerican Pragmatism; R. C. Prus and A. J. PuddephattPhenomenological Sociology; S. Overgaard and D. ZahaviSymbolic Interactionism; D. D. WaskulExistential Sociology; J. A. KotarbaCritical Everyday Life Sociologies; M. E. GardinerPART II: FERMENTATIONFrench Sociologies of the Quotidian; D SchillingErving Goffman; S. KristiansenEthnomethodology; S. HesterConversation Analysis; P. ten HaveThe Sociology of the Absurd; M. Hviid JacobsenPART III: DISSEMINATIONScandinavian Everyday Life Sociologies; A. ChristensenThe Sociology of Emotions; P. PoderSocial Semiotics; P. VanniniCultural Studies and Everyday Life; D. InglisInterpretive Interactionism; N. K. DenzinIndex.

'Encyclopaedic in range, extensively detailed, compellingly written and consistently engaging: Encountering the Everyday is the guide to the varied strands that make up a sociology of everyday life.' Ben Highmore, Reader in Media Studies, University of Sussex. 'The everyday will no longer go unnoticed after reading this compelling book. The international contributors show that the everyday is not mundane but a meaningful and complex topic of theoretical inquiry. It has been a long time since the sociologies of everyday life have been so systematically and throughly examined.' Andrea Fontana, Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. 'As an updated and theoretically informed piece of analysis of the sociologies of everyday life, the anthology [is] an outstanding work for researchers and students interested in questions related to studying everyday life in late-modern societies. It offers a broad variety of articles, which are at the same time historically informative and conceptually clarifying analyses on the various sociologies of everyday life.' Pekka Kuusela, University of Kuopio, Finland in 'Qualitative Sociology Review', August 2009