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A theoretical framework that applies the tools of sociology, anthropology, and political science to the mundane, routine interactions of daily life—showing that ordinary moments are where social structures are enacted, reproduced, and contested. It examines how power dynamics play out in casual conversation, how class is performed in grocery store choices, how race is negotiated in small talk, and how institutions are maintained through repeated micro‑practices. The theory insists that the “everyday” is not trivial; it is the site where macro‑forces become tangible and where resistance can begin. It draws on ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism, and critical theory to reveal that society is made and unmade in the smallest exchanges.
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