Open AccessFolket på gaden - struktureret hverdagsliv i det offentlige rum
Author(s) -
Dorte Caswell,
Ida Schultz
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
dansk sociologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2246-4026
pISSN - 0905-5908
DOI - 10.22439/dansoc.v13i1.512
Subject(s) - reflexivity , sociology , symbolic interactionism , everyday life , normality , field (mathematics) , social exclusion , interactionism , ethnomethodology , gender studies , aesthetics , social science , epistemology , social psychology , psychology , art , law , political science , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics
Dorte Caswell and Ida Schultz: People in the Street
Bag people are different from other people who live on the street. Pictures of bag people are employed both literally and metaphorically to illustrate homelessness, but there is scant research in Denmark about this group of homeless. The purpose of this article is to shed light on the everyday life of the bag people of Copenhagen. The article is based on a “reflexive field study“ employing the reflexive sociology of Bourdieu and symbolic interactionism of Becker and Goffman. By using these approaches it was possible to dissolve the analytical dichotomy of normality, which seems ever present in research on marginalisation and social exclusion. The results show how resourceful and structured the “marginalised“ and “socially excluded“ bag people also are.