The Oblivion of the Life-World The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (-1) ◽  
pp. 45-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Griselda López
Keyword(s):  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Life World ◽  
Alfred Schütz

scholarly journals Don Quixote and the social system: Interpreting Ronald Laing’s concept of ontological insecurity from Alfred Schütz’ and Talcott Parsons’ theories of social action

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 191-207
Author(s):  
Christopher Schlembach
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Social System ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Don Quixote ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alfred Schütz

Alfred Schütz and Talcott Parsons, two towering authorities of Weberian social thought are rarely interpreted in the same theoretical perspective (with the exception of Harold Garfinkel). This article intends to show that Schütz’s later writings about the constitution of social reality in the pluralized and differentiated modern society and Parsons’s concept of the social system converge with reference to their common problem of understanding interaction. In this article, I use Ronald Laing’s psychiatric thought of the early 1960s as a starting point to discuss some of the points of intersection between Schütz and Parsons. Laing argued that psychosis is not a phenomenon of the individual mind. Rather it must be understood in terms of an interaction system that is constituted by doctor and patient. The patient cannot maintain ego borders strong enough to establish a role-based social relationship and feels ontologically insecure. It is necessary to understand the patient in his existential position which constitutes his self as a kind of role. Schütz and Parsons reflected on similar interaction systems. Schütz analyzed the little social system that is established between Don Quixote and Sancho Panza; Parsons addressed the social system between doctor and patient. It is argued that Schütz and Parsons analyzed the conditions under which a social system can be established, but they also look at its breakdown leading to the situation as described by Laing.

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Common Sense and the Thinking of Alfred Schutz

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joaquin Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Life World ◽  
Hermeneutic Phenomenological ◽  
Alfred Schütz

This article deconstructs Alfred Schutz’s thinking to its ownmost (Wesen) meaning: the rendition of the phenomenon of common sense. It discerns the exposition of the meaning of common sense as the foundational movement (ἀρχὴ κινήσεως) that runs through the course of Schutz’s constitutive phenomenology of the natural attitude. It predicates this thesis on Schutz’s elucidation of the phenomena of the life-world (Lebenswelt), typification and common sense as a single phenomenon: κοινἠ πρᾶξῐς (common praxis). The analysis includes hermeneutic-phenomenological considerations. It proposes to enhance the interpretability of Schutz’s thinking and its availability to the human sciences.

Prolegomena to a Philosophical Phenomenology of Religion

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Tuckett
Keyword(s):  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Natural Attitude ◽  
Max Scheler ◽  
Life World ◽  
Peter Berger ◽  
Phenomenology Of Religion ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Ontological Turn ◽  
Philosophical Phenomenology ◽  
Made In

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to deal with a slightly erroneous claim made in previous research that philosophical phenomenology has shown little interest in the topic of “religion”. The majority of this article deals with the branch of the Movement that I have dubbed Sociological Phenomenology which stems out of the work of Alfred Schutz and Max Scheler and has influenced scholars of religion like Peter Berger, Thomas Luckmann and James Spickard. I offer a Husserlian critique of this branch of phenomenology for failing to appreciate the key insights of his later phenomenology’s “ontological turn” where he turned to an analysis on the natural attitude and the life-world. I conclude by showing what a phenomenology or religion consistent with these later insights may look like.

The Theory of Social Action: The Correspondence of Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons.

1979 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Helmut R. Wagner ◽  
Richard Grathoff ◽  
Maurice Natanson
Keyword(s):  
Social Action ◽  
Alfred Schutz ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Alfred Schütz ◽  
Theory Of Social Action
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