SOCIOL 2S06 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas Luckmann, Edmund Husserl, Symbolic Interactionism
25 Sep 2015
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Phenomenology: examines the reality of everyday life and how individuals make sense of their everyday experiences. Intention: consider how people focus on and give attention to particular phenomenon in the world around them. Began with husserl: interested in examining consciousness and how consciousness is intentional. Consciousness is intentionally directed towards objects in an individual"s sociocultural env"t. Husserl"s student alfred schutz wrote the phenomenology of the social world on. Interested in how in everyday life, people make sense of social reality and how they act that reality. Influenced by weber: agreed about how structures shaped actions. Was more interested in how individuals experience subjectively meaningful actions. Most interested in how historical, cultural contexts and social structures shape these subjectively meaningful actions. Symbolic interactionism: schutz was writing at the same time as mead and the other early si. Symbolic interactionism: interested in analyzing how cultural symbols govern social interaction between two or more individuals.
