On Anonymity and Appresentation

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 45-67
Author(s):  
Max Gropper ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
The Stranger

In his famous work on the stranger, Alfred Schutz focuses on the interpretative discrepancies between in-groups and out-groups from the per­spective of a stranger approaching a new group. In doing so, Schutz emphasizes that strangers can overcome their strangeness within a social group by adapting to the prevalent cultural patterns. Shifting the perspective from the stranger to the in-group this essay aims to argue that the experience of the Other’s strangeness due to a discrepancy of interpretative schemes is only one dimension of how the stranger is perceived in everyday life. A second dimension can be derived from Schutz’ work on appresentation. This essay will follow four analytical steps. First, this essay summarizes the Schutzian approach on perceiving the Other as a taken-for-granted part of everyday life within an assumed intersubjective understanding based on an assumed reciprocity of perspectives. Referring to Eberle’s description of an irreciprocity of perspectives, the second section analyzes the Schutzian stranger based on an intersubjective understanding. The third section then focuses on the appresentational pro­cesses of perceiving the stranger in everyday life. By using Goffman’s distinction between virtual and actual social identity, the interplay of categorizing and experiencing the Other in everyday life can be described. Finally, considering the question of how it comes that people can find themselves strangers in their own society, this paper closes by merging the argumentation with a description of the Schutzian perspective on the processes of stigmatization.

scholarly journals An Approach to the Analysis of Religious Reality in the Social Phenomenology of Alfred Schütz

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-327
Author(s):  
Alexey Sitnikov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Social Phenomenology

The article deals with the social phenomenology of Alfred Schütz. Proceeding from the concept of multiple realities, the author describes religious reality, analyses its relationship with everyday, theoretical, and mythological realities, and identifies the areas where they overlap and their specifics. According to Schütz’s concept, reality is understood as something that has a meaning for a human being, and is also consistent and certain for those who are ‘inside’ of it. Realities are structurally similar to one another as they are similar to the reality that is most obvious for all human beings, i.e., the world of everyday life. Religious reality has one of the main signs of genuine reality, that of internal consistency. Religious reality has its own epoché (special ascetic practices) which has similarities with the epoché of the theoretical sphere since neither serve practical objectives, and imply freedom from the transitory issues of everyday life. Just as the theoretical sphere exists independently of the life of a scientist in the physical world and is needed to transfer results to other people, so the religious reality depends on ritual actions and material objects in its striving for the transcendent. Individual, and especially collective, religious practices are performed physically and are inextricably linked with the bodily ritual. The article notes that although Schütz’s phenomenological concept of multiple realities has repeatedly served as a starting point for the development of various social theories, its heuristic potential has not been exhausted. This allows for the further analyzing and development of topical issues such as national identity and its ties with religious tradition in the modern era, when religious reality loses credibility and has many competitors, one of which is the modern myth of the nation. Intersubjective ideas of the nation that are socially confirmed as the self-evident reality of everyday life cause complex emotions and fill human lives, thus displacing religious reality or forcing the latter to come into complex interactions with the national narrative.

scholarly journals ”Så griner vi heldigvis lidt af det”. Ægtepars erfaringer med demens i et hverdagslivs sociologisk perspektiv

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Dræbel ◽  
Kirsten Teglgaard Lund ◽  
Anne Liveng
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Social World ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Dementia Diagnosis ◽  
Care Relationship ◽  
Alfred Schütz

“Fortunately, we laugh a bit about it”. Couples experiences with dementia in an everyday life sociological perspectiveThe article examines changes in the relation between spouses in married couples, where one partner has a dementia diagnosis. Seven qualitative interviews with couples are analyzed with Alfred Schutz sociology of everyday life as a theoretical framework. The analysis asks the question how spouses reinvent routines in an everyday life characterized by a growing unpredictability, and thereby creates new meaningfulness and roles. The analysis illustrates how partners orient themselves in a changed social world, and thereby manage to live an everyday life with dementia. Three modes of relation to each other and to the illness are found, which could partly be understood in connection to the seriousness of the illness: first the couple manage challenges in a marital alliance, later an agreement with new roles and tasks for the partners is established, and towards the final stages of dementia marriage is described as an asymmetrical care relationship.

The Division of Parts Among the Actors in Sophocles'Oedipus Coloneus

1941 ◽  
Vol 35 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 139-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. B Ceadel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
Single Part ◽  
Two Alternatives

The distribution of the parts among the actors in theO.C.is a problem that has long defied solution. In all the other extant plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides the dramatis personae can without difficulty be divided between three actors: but the construction of theO.C.is so complex that it does not admit any such simple allocation. When the part of Oedipus (1–1555) has been assigned to the first actor, and that of Antigone (1–847, 1099–555, 1670–end) to the second, the roles of the Stranger (36–80), Ismene (324–509, 1099–555 mute, 1670–end), Creon (728–1043), and Polyneices (1254–446) must clearly belong to the third: who, then, is to play Theseus (551–667, 887–1043, 1099–210, 1500–55, 1751–end)? It seems impossible to allot the partcompleteto any one of the three actors. Faced by this crux, all those who have dealt with the subject have chosen one or the other of two clear-cut alternatives, either the assumption of a fourth regular actor, or else the splitting-up of the single part of Theseus between two or three actors. These two alternatives, both of which are far from satisfactory—the former infringing the three-actor rule, the latter offending against scenic probability and realism—are fully examined below; at the end of the paper a new part-distribution is suggested, which, it is hoped, avoids both these faults.

Household Structures and Activities

1973 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 271-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matina Weinstein
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Detailed Data ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Village Women ◽  
The Village

The study lasted two months during the summer of 1972 (19th July–14th September) and was approached by means of three techniques:1. participant observation;2. observation;3. interviews.The first consists in the researcher entering the household, establishing contact with the family, and then studying the everyday life by direct observation and participation in the activities. This technique allows freer access to the household than would normally be possible utilizing other techniques, and thus facilitates the collection of detailed data. This technique was applied to one household (referred to as the “study household”) in the village. Although data were collected on many aspects of daily life, special emphasis was placed on obtaining information about those activities which it was felt would have some relevance to archaeological problems in general.The second approach involves general observations of the village women at work, and in particular, observations of five other village households with which other members of the project co-operated.The third approach involved questioning the “study household” and the other five on general topics, such as the length of time taken to perform certain activities.

scholarly journals Encountering the stranger: Hannah Arendt and the shortcomings of empathy as a moral compass

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noomi Matthiesen ◽  
Jacob Klitmøller
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
Moral Dilemmas ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Action ◽  
Moral Compass ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
The Stranger

It is a notion often taken for granted in contemporary Western everyday life that there is an intimate connection between empathy and moral action. Yet, in recent years, this connection has come under scrutiny. In this article, we first ask the question, “What is empathy?” A brief survey of the psychological and philosophical approaches to the notion of empathy shows that it remains a highly contested concept. The field has a propensity to discuss empathy within the frame of sameness. We instead argue that, in order to grasp empathy, it is necessary to foreground otherness. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, we further argue that, when encountering the stranger, moral action requires both visiting the other—as distinct from empathic knowledge—and thinking in order to judge what is right. Ultimately, moral dilemmas are solved, not by having or demanding empathy, but by addressing the issues at hand in joint action.

scholarly journals THE PHENOMENON LIVED BY WOMEN IN NURSING CONSULTATION IN THE GYNECOLOGICAL BRACHYTHERAPY

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Regina Gomes de Araújo ◽  
Ann Mary Machado Tinoco Feitosa Rosas ◽  
Harlon França de Menezes ◽  
Ana Cristina Silva Pinto ◽  
Benedita Maria Rêgo Deusdará Rodrigues
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The Other ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Alfred Schütz

ABSTRACT Objective: to understand the phenomenon lived by women in the nursing consultation in gynecological brachytherapy. Method: a qualitative study, with an approach using the Sociological Phenomenology of Alfred Schutz. Thirteen women submitted to brachytherapy treatment participated in two radiotherapy services: one located in Rio de Janeiro and the other in São Paulo, Brazil. The data collection took place between February and November 2012, through a semi-structured interview. Results: two concrete categories emerged: Seeking guidance and Experiencing fear. The experience lived by patients is that people who need guidance, fear the illness and treatment caused by the diagnosis and by the performance of procedures. Conclusion: the nursing consultation for the patient aids the nurse to understand that each patient has a different degree of understanding and that it is effective to personalize this teaching in order to take care of others.

scholarly journals Intersubjectivity and the Sociology of Alfred Schutz

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquin Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alfred Schütz

This article endeavors to answer three questions. (1) What is the interpretation of intersubjectivity posited by the sociology of Alfred Schutz? (2) Can we augment it by way of Husserl’s transcendental-phenomenological investigation of intersubjectivity? (3) What can Heidegger’s hermeneutics of intersubjectivity add to Schutz’s interpretation? The answer to the first question comprises six theses wrested from Schutz’s sociology. The analysis responds negatively to the second question. Its answer to the third question suggests the exposure of Schutz’s interpretation of intersubjectivity to Heidegger’s hermeneutics extends its exhibition of the phenomenon, enhances the disclosing-saying power of his sociology, and primes its empirical development.

scholarly journals Model doskonałego chrześcijanina w pismach św. Cypriana z Kartaginy

Vox Patrum ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 699-720
Author(s):  
Marcin Wysocki
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pastoral Work ◽  
The Third ◽  
Perfect Model ◽  
Christian Perfection ◽  
Main Model

The article shows the model of the perfect Christian depicted by the Bishop of Carthage, St. Cyprian. This model is particularly interesting since it was formed during the persecution, which had a major impact on shaping the image of the perfect Christian. This paper consists of three main parts: the first - St. bishop Cyprian of Carthage and his time – in which the circumstances of his pastoral work and his works are given, the other - Perfection for all - shows a model of perfection that St. Cyprian proposed to all believers, and in the third part, the martyrs - „a fruit a hundredfold” of perfection - are portrayed. To them Cyprian admitted the highest degree of Christian perfection. For bishop Cyprian the Christian-martyrs, who perfectly fulfilled God’s commandments in everyday life and in the most perfect way they united themself with Christ in the suffering and in the death, were primarily a perfect model of the Christians. And this model of perfect Christianmartyr for decades after Cyprian - till the reign of Emperor Constantine the Great - was the main model of a perfect Christian.

scholarly journals УЛОГА ФЕНОМЕНОЛОШКОГ СТАВА У ПРОБЛЕМУ ДРУШТВЕНЕ СТВАРНОСТИ АЛФРЕДА ШИЦА

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (27) ◽  
pp. 47-73
Author(s):  
Душан Миленковић
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Scientific Theory ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
The World ◽  
Alfred Schütz

In this paper, the thought of the Austrian-born theorist Alfred Schutz, presented in the articles published in the first volume of his collected papers, is examined from the perspective of the role that Edmund Husserl’s phenomenological attitude plays in it. Advocating the importance of analyzing the structure of the world of everyday life in his phenomenology of the natural attitude, Schutz uses various aspects of Husserl’s phenomenology, without paying special attention to the phenomenological attitude itself. Therefore, the paper discusses the extent to which Schitz’s understanding of the natural attitude and its world depends on this concept of Husserl’s philosophy, with special reference to Shutz’s theory in his article “On Multiple Realities”. After showing that Husserl’s phenomenological attitude cannot be compared to the “attitude of scientific theory” discussed in the article on multiple realities, the paper additionally analyzes the absence of the phenomenological attitude in Schutz’s thought while turning to Maurice Natanson’s critique of Schutz’s theory.

Schutz and Gurwitsch on Agency

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Objective Time ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Aron Gurwitsch

Aron Gurwitsch and Alfred Schutz differ over the paramount reality, with Schutz stressing the importance of meaningful action in everyday life and Gurwitsch the perception of objects in objective time. On the ego, Schutz and Husserl rightly argue for its epistemological accessibility, while Gurwitsch defends a non-egological consciousness that seems counterpoised to the self-appropriating, agential ego of Husserl and Schutz. However, Gurwitsch’s endorsement of Sartre’s non-egological consciousness might have facilitated a rapprochement with the agency to be found in Schutz’s and Husserl’s egological accounts. John Drummond’s criticisms of Gurwitsch’s phenomenalist account of the object suggest an object less appropriate for interaction with the bodily agency that Schutz highlights. Gurwitsch pays less attention to agency insofar as he extends his noematic focus to the ultimate ontological suppositions of various orders of being. The differences between Schutz and Gurwitsch on agency result from their diverging overarching strategies within a common phenomenological framework.

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