The Making of the Common in Social Relations

Abstract

This book stems from a basic question: in which forms of qualification and justification do social actors support themselves to engage in common actions? This question brings to the field of sociological and anthropological analysis the need to take into account the socially accepted forms of qualifications of common action and the ways by which they are brought to social situations and, simultaneously, to understand the processes of elaboration of justifications which may demonstrate to social actors that acting in common is worthwhile. We seek, thus, to analyse the processes by which social actors qualify and communalize certain aspects of their life and also produce justifications that give sense to the ways and means of actions thus brought to the stage of social life.