sociological approach to the study of the conduct of everyday life. They describe thedevelopment of their body of research over the years, conceptualizing the conductof life as the discrete eff ort made by the individual in order to meet the diff erent –and sometimes confl icting – demands that arise in the various spheres of everydaylife, and to arrange them into a livable whole. Society can therefore be understoodthrough the everyday lives of the individuals performing these actions. In the presentationof their extensive empirical research on the forms, methods, resources andstrains of the conduct of everyday life under a variety of living conditions they illuminatehow conducting one’s life in the process of social modernization is becomingan ever-increasing challenge.