(social) phenomenology

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(social) phenomenology

Social phenomenology is characterised by the fact, that social phenomenology believes that society is a human construction. Which means social phenomenology wants to make clear what the role of human awarness is in the production of social action, social situations and social worlds.

The origin of this approach within sociology lies in the early 1900’s at the German mathematician Edmund Husserl. But it would last till the 1960’s until social phenomenology would become part of sociology due to Alfred Schutz. He used social phenomonelogy to find a philosophical foundation for Max Webers interpretive sociology(Crossman, 2012).

Resuming phenomenology tries to make any kind of sense of the relationship between action, situation and reality which take place in society. They do see all these factors as fundamental for eacht other, but they don’t have a clear causal relationship due to phenomenology.

Reference: Crossman, Ashely, 2012, Social Phenomenology an overview, URL= http://sociology.about.com/od/Sociological-Theory/a/Social-Phenomenology.htm