Life-world
Lifeworld is a concept used in philosophy and other social sciences, meaning the world as it immediately presents itself to us prior to scientific or philosophical analysis.
This concept (Lebenswelt) was introduced by Edmund Husserl and developed by Jürgen Habermas and others. For Habermas, lifeworld is less a purely cognitive horizon, and more an environment made by practices and attitudes, a realm of informal culturally grounded understandings and mutual acommodations. Rationalization of the lifeworld - its penetration by bureaucracy - is what Habermas calls 'colonization of the lifeworld'.
Social coordination or regulation occurs by means of shared beliefs and values; in the lifeworld, individuals draw from custom and cultural traditions to construct identities, negotiate situational definitions, coordinate action and create social solidarity. (Seidman 1997:197)
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