ISBN:
9781040021545
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (230 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
Serie:
Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought Series
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
142/.7
Schlagwort(e):
Schutz, Alfred
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Phenomenological sociology
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Phenomenology
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Sociology Philosophy
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Social theory
Kurzfassung:
This book calls attention to the continued relevance of Alfred Schutz's social thought and his efforts to bring phenomenology to bear on social theory and the epistemology of social research, arguing that his social theory offers a robust framework for the critical analysis of power and knowledge in modern society.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Interpretivism and the cultural turn in historical social science -- The cultural turn's missing body -- Organization of the book -- Notes -- Chapter 2: The vanishing mediator: The phenomenological moment in American social science -- The phenomenological tradition -- Schutz and ethnomethodology -- Social constructionism: "That is not what we ever said" -- The rise, fall, and (negative) legacy of phenomenological sociology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Relevance analysis: Cognition and knowledge in social phenomenology -- Relevance -- Language, typification, and sociocultural relevances -- The stratification of sociocultural relevance systems -- Relevances are not norms… -- …Neither are they "preferences" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Thematic, interpretive, and motivational relevances: Belief, meaning, and action in the social world -- Thematic relevance and the thematic field -- Irrelevance, a-relevance, and the problem of historical contingency -- Interpretive relevance -- Causality in social action: The problem of motivational relevance -- Accounting for motives: Because and in-order-to motives -- From because motives to social causality -- Intrinsic and imposed relevances and the problem of learning and of power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Symbol relations and social reality: Culture and structure in the social world -- What is a symbol? -- The hierarchy of meaning structures: Marks, indications, and signs -- From marks and indications to signs -- Signs, communication, and the historical social sciences -- Beyond intersubjectivity: symbols and experiences of transcendence -- The arbitrariness of the symbol-vehicle -- Symbol relations and the structures of social reality.
Kurzfassung:
"In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change. This shift has enriched the field but also led to a deadlock regarding the meaning and status of subjective knowledge. Cultural interpretivists struggle to incorporate subjective experience and the body into their understanding of social reality. In the early 20th century, philosopher Alfred Schutz grappled with this very issue. Drawing on Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and Max Weber's historical sociology, Schutz pioneered the interpretive analysis of social life from an embodied perspective. However, the recent interpretivist turn, influenced by linguistic philosophies, discourse theory, and poststructuralism, has overlooked the insights of Schutz and other phenomenologists. This book revisits Schutz's phenomenology and social theory, positioning them against contemporary problems in social theory and interpretive social science research. The book extends Schutz's key concepts of relevance, symbol relations, theory of language, and lifeworld meaning structures. It outlines Schutz's critical approach to the social distribution of knowledge and develops his nascent sociology and political economy of knowledge. This book will appeal to readers with interests in social theory, phenomenology, and the methods of interpretive social science, including historical sociology, cultural sociology, science and technology studies, political economy, and international relations"--
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