Sociology 2240E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Externalization, Harold Garfinkel, Edmund Husserl
15 Feb 2017
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Phenomology : the study of understanding, and processing everyday life. And how groups of people interact in everyday life. Completely associated with nominalism: they believe the world is completely socially constructed, everyday experience is experienced by members of society, consciousness and perception : sensory and perception, all knowledge is experiential, subjective meaning. Interested in questioning taken for granted, everyday actions. Look at world as an outsider: suspend values: figure out what people are doing. Set own ideological values to try and figure what people are doing: stock of knowledge : common sense construct. We all carry recipe: implicit instructions to self: we all use inter-su(cid:271)je(cid:272)tivity : phe(cid:374)e(cid:373)ology tea(cid:272)hes us reality is a(cid:374) o(cid:374)goi(cid:374)g a(cid:272)(cid:272)o(cid:373)plish(cid:373)e(cid:374)t we are defining what our agency is. Ex: two people watching the same hockey game: meaningful object: object becomes meaningfully constituted. Communicate with others on the basis of shared interpretation. Nothing has a fixed meaning, and everything is dependent on context.
