Domain of relevance

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In every situation certain things can be – and must be- take for grantend and vertain things selected out as relevant to the individual’s interests. So Schutz’s individual sorts out this everyday world into ‘domains of relevance’., the primary domain being the immediate objects and events he can perceive, some of which he may hope to change. This is the only domain of which the individual requires detailed knowledge.

Having defined his situation and so orientated himself towards it by permitting his interests and desires to select the relevant ‘typified’ aspects of it, the individual may set humself to alter his situtation by action. This involves hum in anticipating in his mins possible ways of dealing whit his situation as he perceives it. He fantasizes or imagines a project, or number of possible projects lead to action in which the agent purposes to bring into being a pre-conceives plan, Schutz calls ithis rational activity for it involves postulating means to the end in questio. This is the motivated lived experience that represents the heart of subjective awareness

References

Campbell, T. (1981) Seven theories of Human Society. Clarendon Press, Oxford203-204 (page 203)

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