Life-world of IT-specialists: Research opportunities and challenges in the context of sociology of everyday life and visual sociology

Abstract

The article presents variants for formulating and solving the problems of sociological research of IT-specialists, both theoretically and empirically. It is grounded the perspectiveness of application of methods based on the key principles of sociology of the everyday life and visual sociology to the measurement of the life-world IT-specialist.

The article is exploratory in nature and identifies issues related to the study of the everyday life-world IT-specialists, offering ways and means of its empirical measurement. First, it focuses on interpretation of the key concepts of phenomenological sociology, in particular, "the world of daily life" in the works of Alfred Schütz. Secondly, analyzed how these concepts are operationalized in the few studies available in phenomenology profession researches. Thirdly, the author presents the main results of approbation of indicators for measuring the life-world of IT-specialists (in the period from 2011 to 2015).