Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka, Helmut Schoeck, Karin Knorr. Excerpt: Alfred Schtz (1899-1959) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology . Life He was born in Austria, studied law in Vienna, worked as an international lawyer for Reitler and Company, and moved to the United States in 1939, where he became a member of the faculty of The New School . He worked on phenomenology, social science methodology and the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, William James and others. Work Schutz's principal task was to create a philosophical foundation for the social sciences . He was strongly influenced by Ludwig von Mises, Henri Bergson, William James, and Edmund Husserl . Contrary to common belief, George Herbert Mead was of little importance for Schutz. Schutz was very critical of his behavioristic approach and his inadequate treatment of the problem of social action . Although Schtz was never a student of Husserl, he, together with a colleague, Felix Kaufmann, studied Husserl's work intensively in seeking a basis for interpretive sociology derived from the work of Max Weber . This work and its continuation resulted in his first book, Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (literally, The meaningful construction of the social world, but published in English as The phenomenology of the social world ). This work brought him to the attention of Husserl, with whom he corresponded and whom he visited until Husserl's death in 1938. In fact, he was offered the position of assistant to Husserl at Freiburg University in the early 1930s, but declined. Schtz is probably unique as a scholar of the social sciences in that he pursue...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Austrian Sociologists: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka. To get started finding Austrian Sociologists: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Austrian Sociologists: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka, Helmut Schoeck, Karin Knorr. Excerpt: Alfred Schtz (1899-1959) was an Austrian social scientist, whose work bridged sociological and phenomenological traditions to form a social phenomenology . Life He was born in Austria, studied law in Vienna, worked as an international lawyer for Reitler and Company, and moved to the United States in 1939, where he became a member of the faculty of The New School . He worked on phenomenology, social science methodology and the philosophy of Edmund Husserl, William James and others. Work Schutz's principal task was to create a philosophical foundation for the social sciences . He was strongly influenced by Ludwig von Mises, Henri Bergson, William James, and Edmund Husserl . Contrary to common belief, George Herbert Mead was of little importance for Schutz. Schutz was very critical of his behavioristic approach and his inadequate treatment of the problem of social action . Although Schtz was never a student of Husserl, he, together with a colleague, Felix Kaufmann, studied Husserl's work intensively in seeking a basis for interpretive sociology derived from the work of Max Weber . This work and its continuation resulted in his first book, Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (literally, The meaningful construction of the social world, but published in English as The phenomenology of the social world ). This work brought him to the attention of Husserl, with whom he corresponded and whom he visited until Husserl's death in 1938. In fact, he was offered the position of assistant to Husserl at Freiburg University in the early 1930s, but declined. Schtz is probably unique as a scholar of the social sciences in that he pursue...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Austrian Sociologists: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka. To get started finding Austrian Sociologists: Alfred Schtz, Arno Tausch, Roland Benedikter, Helga Nowotny, Werner Stark, Eugen Ehrlich, Michael Prochazka, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.