SOCIOL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Social Science, Human Action, Edmund Husserl
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Common-sense and scienti c interpretation of human action -alfred schutz. Introduction: content of experience and thought objects: the constructs of common-sense and of scienti c thinking. Thought object: construct of a highly complicated nature. Concrete facts of common-sense perception isn"t as concrete, because it is built on so many abstractions. Science has two aims: theory that agrees with experience, explanation of common-sense concepts of nature. Physical science has to develop devices by which thought-objects of common- sense perception is superseded by thought objects of science. All our knowledge (common-sense and scienti c thinking) involves constructs speci c to the respective level of thought organization. All facts are selected from universal context by the activities of our mind. Carrying interpretational inner and outer horizons: particular structure of the constructs of the social sciences. Social scientists observe a social world which contains structures created by people.
