This original and innovative volume offers a basic introduction to the psychological study of the conduct of everyday life in contemporary society. "This book addresses key and missing questions at the cutting edge of psychological research and social theory. It presents a generative theoretical and methodological approach to the study of everyday practice - relevant and inspiring not only for psychologists, but for scholars across the social sciences." - Jean Lave, Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley, USA "Schraube and Højholt have done psychologists a great service; we can now move out of the laboratory and into the actual contexts where people conduct their everyday lives together. This impressive book provides us with theoretical, methodological, and empirical ideas about what a psychology that is relevant to human life might look like. I recommend it to all students, researchers, and practitioners of the discipline."- Svend Brinkmann, Professor of Psychology, University of Aalborg, Denmark "This is a remarkable and fascinating collection, putting in place a radical new way for psychology to relate to people. For a sociologist committed to starting with and remaining with people's everyday lives, it is wonderful to discover a psychology that takes the same route. We can be friends, we can learn from one another, and here's a book that gives us a place to start. It provides a conceptual framework, applications to psychological practice, approaches to and examples of research, and it all adds up to an important innovation." - Dorothy Smith, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada "Each chapter is a thought-provoking, intellectual adventure that serves as a fresh perspective within psychological theorizing and research. Challenging mainstream conceptualizations and providing examples of alternative ways to conduct research, this book is a must read for academics interested in the conduct of everyday life." --I. I. Katzarska-Miller, Transylvania University, CHOICE