SOCIOL 2S06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Harold Garfinkel, Edmund Husserl, American Sociological Association

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2S06
• Professor: David Young

Document Summary

It examines the relatity of evryaay life, and how indivuals make sense of their everyday experiences. Focuses o the and give attention particular phenomenoa in the world around them. Shutz tried to play out the sociological implication of phenomolgy. The phenomenlogy of the social world ( 1932 in german, 1967 in english) Schutz was interested in how people in everyday life make sense of social reality and act on this reality. Like goffman he was interest in everyday life. Peter berger and thomas luckman pushed husserl ideas. The social construction of reality ( 1966: comparison to other perspectives. Weber was interest in subjectively meaningful action. Action that is important to people in some way. Schutz was also interested in action that is important to people. But there was a difference between their approach. Weber he was much interest in how historical, cultural context and social structure shape subjectively meaningful action.