This document discusses sociological perspectives on everyday life from Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Georg Lukács, and Walter Benjamin. It examines Marx's concept of the "religion of everyday life" and how everyday activities take on religious significance under capitalism. It explores Simmel's analysis of the technological impacts on life in metropolitan areas. It also covers Lukács' view of how commodities structure everyday life and Benjamin's concept of collective dream-houses represented in everyday culture. The document seeks to problematize and critically analyze the sociological understandings of everyday experiences.

1. Critical Everyday Life Sociologies
Problematizing the Everyday
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Michael E. Gardiner

2. Introduction

3. Karl Marx: the ‘religion of everyday life’

4. Karl Marx: the ‘religion of everyday life’

5. Karl Marx: the ‘religion of everyday life’

6. Karl Marx: the ‘religion of everyday life’

7. Georg Simmel: the ‘technology of metropolitan life’

8. Georg Simmel: the ‘technology of metropolitan life’

9. Georg Lukács: the ‘riddle of the commodity-structure’

10. Georg Lukács: the ‘riddle of the commodity-structure’

11. Georg Lukács: the ‘riddle of the commodity-structure’

12. Walter Benjamin: the ‘dream-houses of the collective’

13. Walter Benjamin: the ‘dream-houses of the collective’

14. Walter Benjamin: the ‘dream-houses of the collective’

15. Conclusion
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