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Viaţa cotidiană în oraşul Chişinău la începutul secoului al XX-lea (1900-1918)
SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION
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What is the meaning of „Daily Life”? Making up the place above all the
political thinking and the existence thinking,the direct meaning of the term
„daily life” would be something which imperceptibly makes us perceive
everything that models our glance and hearing without paying attention to
it because it includes everything that happens every day; everything that is
common, usual, of every day.The world where a problem of „daily life” may
show up is the world characterized by an isolated symbolic organization
governed by a certain number of figures or instances excessing,dominating
and supervising the scene of normal existence.
To emphasize the complexity of daily life content, and also to remove
some confusions regarding modalities of its interpretation from scientific
point of view, we consider it is necessary to highlight some approaches in
terms of daily life from the perspective of social and humanity disciplines
related to the history.
The explanations of „daily life” are of historical, sociological, psychoanalytical,
anthropological, philosophical nature, however each of these human
or social sciences has its own specific difference in the method and finality of
cutting up the world of everyday life, in rational division of the reality as such
and in its interpretation from different points of view.
From sociological point of view, for example, Norbert Elias estimates
that the definition of „daily life” depends largely on what it is not, that is,
we could learn more about it from what doesn’t exist and from the qualities
that its opposite is getting than from what it should be itself. From this
point of view, „daily life” is a relative and variable term: its definition always
depends on its correspondent,which could be different each time, in function
of ending up the defining process and the one establishing the classifying
criteria. In terms of time to daily life are opposed the days of festivity, holidays
and vacation, in this sense, it appoints our every day activity; whether it
is the opposite of the bourgeois luxury life, then through daily life we understand
the worker’s or peasant’s way of being, who is caught by the routine of
his everyday programme; from political point of view to daily life is opposed
the life of leaders (kings, princes, presidents, ministers, etc.).
Also, the daily life is tantamounted to private life (family, children, intimacy),
which is opposed to public or professional life. The distinction
between public and private space is very complex; for example, the dwelling