Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
	Interpretivism and the cultural turn in historical social science
	The cultural turn’s missing body
	Organization of the book
	Notes
Chapter 2: The vanishing mediator: The phenomenological moment in American social science
	The phenomenological tradition
	Schutz and ethnomethodology
	Social constructionism: “That is not what we ever said”
	The rise, fall, and (negative) legacy of phenomenological sociology
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Relevance analysis: Cognition and knowledge in social phenomenology
	Relevance
		Language, typification, and sociocultural relevances
	The stratification of sociocultural relevance systems
		Relevances are not norms…
		…Neither are they “preferences”
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 4: Thematic, interpretive, and motivational relevances: Belief, meaning, and action in the social world
	Thematic relevance and the thematic field
	Irrelevance, a-relevance, and the problem of historical contingency
	Interpretive relevance
	Causality in social action: The problem of motivational relevance
		Accounting for motives: Because and in-order-to motives
		From because motives to social causality
	Intrinsic and imposed relevances and the problem of learning and of power
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 5: Symbol relations and social reality: Culture and structure in the social world
	What is a symbol?
	The hierarchy of meaning structures: Marks, indications, and signs
		From marks and indications to signs
		Signs, communication, and the historical social sciences
	Beyond intersubjectivity: symbols and experiences of transcendence
		The arbitrariness of the symbol-vehicle
	Symbol relations and the structures of social reality
	From symbols back to relevances
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: From phenomenology to the sociology and political economy of knowledge: Culture, power, and the social distribution of knowledge
	Schutz and the tradition of the sociology of knowledge
	Methodological preliminaries: knowledge in the phenomenological perspective
		The social stock of knowledge
		The accumulation, distribution, and origins of the differentiation of knowledge
	Knowledge and power: the distribution of knowledge as political economy
		The three dimensions of power struggle in the control and distribution of knowledge
	Symbols in culture: the social origins of cultural products
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 7: Conclusion: Phenomenology, social theory, and interpretive social science
	For a neoclassical social scientific interpretivism
	Notes
Bibliography
Index