The dual vision : Alfred Schutz and the myth of phenomenological social science
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The dual vision : Alfred Schutz and the myth of phenomenological social science
（Routledge library editions, . Phenomenology ; v. 3）
Routledge, 2014, c1977
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977
Set ISBN for subseries "Phenomenology": 9780415838542
Bibliography: p. 215-228
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This study, originally published in 1977, focuses on a critical examination of the life-work of Alfred Schutz, the most important and influential 'father' of several recent schools of empirical social research.
The author shows why Shutz and his followers fail in their attempts to 'humanize' empirical social science. The problems they encounter, he argues, are due to their attempt to achieve a methodological synthesis of self-determining subjectivity and empirical criteria of validation, based on Schutz's heuristic adoption of relevant ideas from Weber and Husserl. This is, in effect, an artificial union of subjectivity and objectivity - their 'dual vision' - that satisfies neither phenomenological nor naturalist perspectives. Dr Gorman suggests that the radical implications of phenomenology must lead to a consistent, socially-conscious method of inquiry, and, in a final chapter, he re-defines the methodological implications of phenomenology with the aid of existential and Marxist categories.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Phenomenology and Methodology of Social Science: The Origins 2. Phenomenological Social Science 3. Phenomenology, Free Action, Empirical Social Science: Some Theoretical and Practical Problems 4. The 'Objectivity' of Empirical Social Science: A Philosophical Perspective 5. Epilogue: An Alternative Phenomenological Approach to Social Inquiry. Appendix
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