Alfred Schutz on Phenomenological Psychology and Transcendental Phenomenology

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Emanuel Gros
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Do So

AbstractAlfred Schutz is, without a doubt, one of the phenomenologists that contributed the most to the reflection on how to apply insights from phenomenological philosophy to the, empirical and theoretical, human and social sciences. However, his work tends to be neglected by many of the current advocates of phenomenology within these disciplines. In the present paper, I intend to remedy this situation. In order to do so, I will systematically revisit his mundane and social-scientifically oriented account of phenomenology, which, as I shall show, emerges from a theoretical confrontation with the Husserlian distinction between transcendental phenomenology and phenomenological psychology.

The Problem of Adequacy Reflections on Alfred Schutz's Contribution to the Methodology of the Social Sciences

1972 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton C. Zijderveld
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
The Many

The theories of the Austrian-American philosopher and social scientist Alfred Schutz have been summarized and introduced sufficiently by various of his students. The purpose of the present paper is not to provide the reader with yet another comprehensive summary of his phenomenology and social theories but will try to formulate what Schutz has contributed to one of the most crucial issues in the methodology of the social sciences, namely the problem of an adequate social theory. Without underestimating the many fruitful insights of his phenomenological philosophy and the contributions he made to social theory in general, it was in the field of methodology that, according to this author's opinion, Schutz contributed most to the social sciences.

On the Epoché in Phenomenological Psychology: A Schutzian Response to Zahavi

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-156
Author(s):  
Michael D. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Transcendental Phenomenology ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Phenomenological Psychology ◽  
Transcendental Reduction ◽  
Alfred Schütz

Abstract Dan Zahavi has questioned whether the use of a transcendental phenomenological epoché is essential for phenomenological psychology. He criticizes the views of Amedeo Giorgi by asserting that Husserl did not view the transcendental reduction as needed for an entrance into phenomenological psychology and that, if one thinks so, phenomenological psychology would be in danger of being absorbed within transcendental phenomenology. Thirdly, rather than envisioning transcendental phenomenology as a purification for phenomenological psychology, Zahavi recommends a dialogue between transcendental phenomenologists and psychologists. However, the two disciplines are closer for Husserl who also conceives phenomenological psychology as a self-standing science, and Giorgi is not as rigid on the necessity of transcendental phenomenology for phenomenological psychology. Alfred Schutz, following Husserl’s “Nachwort,” develops his own distinctive phenomenological psychology that appreciates disciplinary convergences and respects boundaries, while also articulating a wider understanding of epoché as an anthropological fact operative beyond the limits of transcendental phenomenology.

scholarly journals Schütz, Seebobm e a Ciência da Cultura

Phainomenon ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24
Author(s):  
Lester Embree
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Phenomenological Theory ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Alfred Schütz

Abstract Alfred Schutz emphasizes the methods of interpretative social sciences. Thomas Seebohm emphasizes the interpretation of texts and traces essential to the historical sciences. There their accounts are, in the main, mutually complementary, and together they advance the constitutive phenomenological theory of the generically cultural sciences.

scholarly journals Gurwitsch, Goldstein, Merleau-Ponty. Análisis de una estrecha relación

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luz Pintos Peñaranda
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Phenomenological Philosophy ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Kurt Goldstein ◽  
Aron Gurwitsch

RESUMENEn este ensayo intento pagar una deuda pendiente que todos tenemos con Aron Gurwitsch y recuperar, para nuestra memoria, su importante contribución a la fenomenología durante los años que él estuvo exiliado en Francia (1933-1940). Fue él quien introdujo el pensamiento de Kurt Goldstein en Francia y fue él el primero en comprender (en los años veinte) que estaba naciendo un nuevo enfoque en las ciencias humanas y sociales y que hay una coincidencia entre ellas y la nueva filosofía fenomenológica de Husserl: una tendencia a ir a las cosas tal como son vividas y manejadas por los sujetos. Este espíritu de confluencia entre la fenomenología y las otras ciencias es lo que le transmitió a Maurice Merleau-Ponty, su alumno y contertulio, pero sin que él reconociera nunca en sus escritos a Gurwitsch como una gran «fuente de inspiración» para su pensamiento. En este ensayo se presentan evidencias sobre la deuda impagada de Merleau-Ponty con respecto a Aron Gurwitsch.PALABRAS CLAVEGurwitsch – Merleau-Ponty – Goldstein – Fenomenología – Psicología de la GestaltABSTRACTIt is our aim in this essay to pay off a debt we owe to Aron Gurwitsch and to retrieve for our memory his important contribution to phenomenology during his years of exile in France (1933-1940). While there, he introduced the thought of Kurt Goldstein´s thought and was the first to understand that a new approach in the human and social sciences was emerging and converging with Husserl’s new phenomenological philosophy: a tendency towards things such as they are lived and handled by subjects. This spirit of confluence between phenomenology and the sciences is something he passed on to his younger colleague, Merleau-Ponty, who did not acknowledge Gurwitsch as a major «source of inspiration» for his thought. Some evidence of Merleau Ponty´s unpaid debt to Aron Gurwitsch is presented in this essay.KEY WORDSGurwitsch – Merleau-Ponty – Goldstein –Phenomenology – Gestalt´s Psychology

Alfred Schutz and ethnomethodology: Origins and departures

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martyn Hammersley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Theory Formation ◽  
Harold Garfinkel ◽  
Social Inquiry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Early Influence ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
The Relationship

The work of Alfred Schutz was an important early influence on Harold Garfinkel and therefore on the development of ethnomethodology. In this article, I try to clarify what Garfinkel drew from Schutz, as well as what he did not take from him, specifically as regards the task of social inquiry. This is done by focusing in detail on one of Schutz’s key articles: ‘Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences’. The aim is thereby to illuminate the relationship between Schutz’s views on the character of social science and Garfinkel’s radical proposal for a re-specified focus of investigation. This is further pursued by examining an important debate about the link between Schutz and ethnomethodology.

Sudan Research Unit, University of Khartoum

1966 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-532
Author(s):  
Yusuf Fadl Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
African Studies ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Human And Social Sciences ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

The Sudan Research Unit was established as an inter-disciplinary unit in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Khartoum in July 1964. Its objectives were specified broadly as the promotion of research in the human and social sciences concerning the Sudan, assisting research on projects which need co-ordination of different disciplines, training research workers, and sponsoring publication reports on their progress and results. The Sudan Research Unit also maintains contact with other centres of Sudanese studies and with centres of African studies in general. It is not at present giving any Sudanese courses, although it plans to do so in future. The Unit now organises a fortnightly postgraduate seminar on African studies, dealing with subjects of general interest.

Alfred schutz and the social sciences

Human Studies ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 289-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Kersten
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alfred Schütz

Um esboço da teoria da comunicação de Alfred Schütz

Phainomenon ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-96
Author(s):  
João Carlos Correia
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Intellectual Journey

Abstract Throughout about three decades of incessant research, the Austrian phenomenologist Alfred Schutz tried to specify the concept of meaning presented in an insufficient way by Max Weber in his famous definition of subjective action. Quickly, Schutz exceeded the methodological questions related with the foundation of Social Sciences, developing an elaborated reflection on the relations between Communication and Society. Along this text, are presented some particularly significant moments of this intellectual journey, such as the schtuzian reflection on intersubjectivity; the question of communication as condition of possibility of the life-world, and, finally, the analysis of appresentational reference and the set of linguistic artefacts (marks, indications, signs and symbols) that allows man to deal with the experience of transcendence.

Choosing to Wait: Waiting as a Possible Part of Projects of Action

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 69-79
Author(s):  
Karsten Krampe ◽  
Svenja Reinhardt ◽  
Sebastian Weste ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Soccer Players ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Life World ◽  
Professional Soccer ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Phenomenological Point ◽  
Do So

In this paper we examine the concept of waiting from a phenomenological point of view. In order to do so, we start with a definition from Andreas Göttlich and contextualize it within the theoretical framework provided by Alfred Schutz, Thomas Luckmann and Peter L. Berger. Additionally, we discuss waiting on the basis of our previous research, specifically within the context of a field extract from an earlier life-world analytical ethnography on the parents of pre-adolescent, non-professional soccer players. The field vignette depicts a mother who has problematic possibilities of conflicting preferences due to the apperception of her soccer playing child, who was injured during the match. This negotiation within projects of action will be outlined as a specific facet of waiting.

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