Author(s): Alfred Schutz (Author), George Walsh (Translator), Fredrick Lehnert (Translator)
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication Date: 1 Jan. 1972
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 255 pages
ISBN-10: 0810103907
ISBN-13: 9780810103900
Book Description
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.
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This book contains a thoroughgoing analysis of the role of objectivity versus subjectivity in the social sciences and the nature of human action . It also presents a philosophical analysis of the nature of social science as such, and raises as well as answers the fundamental question of whether to and to what extent the social sciences can provide us with a genuine understanding of human beings.
About the Author
Alfred Schütz (13 April 1899, Vienna - 20 May 1959, New York City) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology.
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