Abstract

This paper argues that we need to go beyond norms and normativity in the study of social life. The main purpose of the paper is to offer concepts and resources for a study of familiarity and estrangement, which, it is argued, is better placed to remind us, as we constantly need to be reminded, of one the most difficult things about living together, namely, how we understand the world of another person and with what attitude we approach all that which is unfamiliar to us