Collected Papers V. Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

• Main Author: Schutz, Alfred (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Embree, Lester (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Phaenomenologica, Published Under the Auspices of the Husserl-Archives, 205
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Phenomenology.; Social sciences.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Philosophy of the Social Sciences.

This volume begins with Schutz's sketch of how Husserl influenced him. It shows how phenomenological theory of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz's theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It contains excha...

Table of Contents:

• Editorial Introduction
• Husserl and His Influence on Me
• Choice and the Social Sciences
• The Theory of Social Action: Correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons
• Reflections on the Problem of Relevance
• Outlines on “Relevance and Action”
• T. S. Eliot’s Theory of Culture
• Letters of Schutz to Felix Kaufmann
• Letters of Schutz to Gurwitsch
• Letters of Schutz to Voegelin.