Stock of Knowledge at Hand At any moment in his life the individual has a stock of knowledge at hand. This stock is made up of typifications of the common-sense world This"stockpiling of typifications is endemic to common sense life. From childhood on the individual continues to amass a vast number of"recipes which then serve as techniques for understanding or at least controlling aspects of his experience Finally, the typifications which comprise the stock of knowledge are generated out of a social structure. here as everywhere knowledge is socially rooted, socially distributed and socially informed. Yet its individual expression depends on the unique placement of the individual in the social worldStock of Knowledge at Hand • At any moment in his life the individual has a stock of knowledge at hand. This stock is made up of typifications of the common-sense world. • This “stockpiling” of typifications is endemic to common￾sense life. From childhood on, the individual continues to amass a vast number of “recipes” which then serve as techniques for understanding or at least controlling aspects of his experience. • Finally, the typifications which comprise the stock of knowledge are generated out of a social structure. Here as everywhere, knowledge is socially rooted, socially distributed, and socially informed. Yet its individual expression depends on the unique placement of the individual in the social world