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Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Autor Besnik Pula
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 apr 2024
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 twentieth 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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781032609164
ISBN-10: 1032609168
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 4
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction  2. The Vanishing Mediator: The Phenomenological Moment in American Social Science  3. Relevance Analysis: Cognition and Knowledge in Social Phenomenology  4. Thematic, Interpretive, and Motivational Relevances: Belief, Meaning, and Action in the Social World  5. Symbol Relations and Social Reality: Culture and Structure in the Social World  6. From Phenomenology to the Sociology and Political Economy of Knowledge: Culture, Power, and the Social Distribution of Knowledge  7. Conclusion: Phenomenology, Social Theory, and Interpretive Social Science



Notă biografică

Besnik Pula is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA, where he also serves as Director of the International Studies Program. He is the author of Globalization Under and After Socialism: The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe.

Descriere

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.