Mundane Reflexivität: zur Verständigung mit und über Alfred Schütz

Abstract: The probably most important reference frame of understanding sociology - as practised nowadays - is in itself not a sociological approach but a protosociological descriptive method. This means mundane phenomenology, as developed by Alfred Schütz and - in succession - by Thomas Luckmann. Thematically Schütz works out 'understanding' in three respects: Firstly, in constructive discussion with Max Weber's work as an epistemological problem; secondly, with recourse to a general human ability as an everyday phenomenon; and thirdly, in the sense of idealtypical 'second-order' constructions as a method of social science. According to Schütz the problem of understanding the other as alter ego can only be solved in an innerworldly, mundane way: by distinguishing the invariant structures of everyday life-worlds underlying all concrete forms of subjective experience. In this way mundane phenomenology provides a universal matrix which allows an ideal comparability within heterogeneous sociolog

Object Details

• Alternative title: Mundane reflectivity: communication with and on Alfred Schuetz
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Sociologia Internationalis ; 25 (1987) 2 ; 143-161

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Schütz, Alfred ; Fremdverstehen

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 1987
• Creator: Hitzler, Ronald

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-55522
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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