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I have heard the term ‘life worlds’ many times at conferences. It seems like a perfect word to use in my PhD, as it focuses on participant perspectives and the particularity of their experiences and, well, life worlds.

I haven’t defined the term, and I hand in in a month, so I don’t have time to go into a whole debate. Can I use the term with a short definition, or is it one of those really contentious terms that I should just avoid? Which book/paper is the most popular use of the term in sociology?

I am a youth researcher doing ethnographic fieldwork.