This article explores the introductory course "The Sociology of Everyday Life" at Flinders University, where the students engage in the sociological understanding of the "taken for granted" through research. In doing so, students shift between researchers and subjects, and illuminate the sociological meanings latent in the survey data collated. In engaging students in research tasks, students are able to connect concepts and theories to their own lived experience. Such tasks are situated within a student-centered approach to curriculum and student learning. However, using findings of the survey to shape future course design raises some sociological dilemmas: what does everyday life mean to different social actors, who are actively constructing their social reality amongst the pressures of institutions and late modernity? What then are the implications for teaching and learning sociology
