1st Edition
The Dual Vision Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science
By Robert Gorman
Copyright 1977
248 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Robert Gorman
