Domain of relevance

From Geography

Every person is building up a [stock of knowledge] which is used to categorize the world so a person knows how to deal with different situations. Schutz calls this process of categorization [typification].

In every situation certain things can be – and must be- take for granted and certain [typifications] 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 himself to alter his situation by action. This involves him in anticipating in his mind 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 this 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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