Crossroads Digest

Radical social changes of the last decades detect more and more a failure of the established conceptual frameworks of knowledge in humanities and social sciences to “cope” with new social realities. In particular, the concept (and metaphor) of “grassroots society” draws a considerable amount of attention. While the obvious closeness of this concept with the concepts of “everydayness” and “privacy” is clear they are not identical. This articles treats “grassroots society” as a multi-dimensional plexus of practices in private sphere, which in the situation of a multilayer structure of contemporary societies operates on the level of “hidden sociality” and has a number of distinctive features, above all, its projective orientation.