Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences

Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 378
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ISBN-10 : 9781134478682
ISBN-13 : 1134478682
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Synopsis Phenomenology, Language and the Social Sciences by : Maurice Roche

This book looks at two ‘revolutions’ in philosophy – phenomenology and conceptual analysis which have been influential in sociology and psychology. It discusses humanistic psychiatry and sociological approaches to the specific area of mental illness, which counter the ultimately reductionist implications of Freudian psycho-analytic theory. The book, originally published in 1973, concludes by stating the broad underlying themes of the two forms of humanistic philosophy and indicating how they relate to the problems of theory and method in sociology.

Phenomenology and the Social Sciences

Phenomenology and the Social Sciences
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 484
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ISBN-10 : 0810106167
ISBN-13 : 9780810106161
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Phenomenology and the Social Sciences by : Maurice Natanson

The idea of this anthology is to explore the relationships between phenomenology and the social sciences.

Phenomenology and Science

Phenomenology and Science
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 239
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ISBN-10 : 9781137516053
ISBN-13 : 1137516054
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Synopsis Phenomenology and Science by : Jack Reynolds

This book investigates the complex, sometimes fraught relationship between phenomenology and the natural sciences. The contributors attempt to subvert and complicate the divide that has historically tended to characterize the relationship between the two fields. Phenomenology has traditionally been understood as methodologically distinct from scientific practice, and thus removed from any claim that philosophy is strictly continuous with science. There is some substance to this thinking, which has dominated consideration of the relationship between phenomenology and science throughout the twentieth century. However, there are also emerging trends within both phenomenology and empirical science that complicate this too stark opposition, and call for more systematic consideration of the inter-relation between the two fields. These essays explore such issues, either by directly examining meta-philosophical and methodological matters, or by looking at particular topics that seem to require the resources of each, including imagination, cognition, temporality, affect, imagery, language, and perception.

Phenomenology and Sociology

Phenomenology and Sociology
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Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Total Pages : 416
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106001002002
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Synopsis Phenomenology and Sociology by : Thomas Luckmann

Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science

Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 276
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ISBN-10 : 9781040021590
ISBN-13 : 104002159X
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science by : Besnik Pula

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.

Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy

Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 9781786613998
ISBN-13 : 1786613999
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Proto-Phenomenology, Language Acquisition, Orality and Literacy by : Lawrence J. Hatab

Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the “first” world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language. Common distinctions between mind and world, fact and value, cognition and affect miss the meaning-laden dimension of embodied, practical existence, where language and life are a matter of “dwelling in speech.” In this second volume, Hatab supplements and fortifies his initial analysis by offering a detailed treatment of child development and language acquisition, which exhibit a proto-phenomenological world in the making. He then takes up an in-depth study of the differences between oral and written language (particularly in the ancient Greek world) and how the history of alphabetic literacy shows why Western philosophy came to emphasize objective, representational models of cognition and language, which conceal and pass over the presentational domain of dwelling in speech. Such a study offers significant new angles on the nature of philosophy and language.

Schutzian Research vol. 1 / 2009

Schutzian Research vol. 1 / 2009
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Publisher : Zeta Books
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9789731997230
ISBN-13 : 9731997237
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Schutzian Research vol. 1 / 2009 by : Michael Barber

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The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory

The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory
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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0812277422
ISBN-13 : 9780812277425
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Restructuring of Social and Political Theory by : Richard J. Bernstein

In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.

The Phenomenology of the Social World

The Phenomenology of the Social World
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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0810103907
ISBN-13 : 9780810103900
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis The Phenomenology of the Social World by : Alfred Schutz

In this book, his major work, Alfred Schutz attempts to provide a sound philosophical basis for the sociological theories of Max Weber. Using a Husserlian phenomenology, Schutz provides a complete and original analysis of human action and its "intended meaning."