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Routledge Library Editions: Phenomenology

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1. Phenomenology and methodology of social science : the origins -- 2. Phenomenological social science -- 3. Phenomenology, free action, empricial 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.;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 methodological synthesis of self-determining subjectivity and empirical criteria of validation, based on Schutz's heuristic adoption of relevant ideas from Weber and Husserl. This is, in effect

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2022

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Routledge

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English

ISBN 10:

0710075464

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9780203762806