Abstract
Alfred Schutz’s view of life-world and intersubjectivity are presented. Both concepts were developed in the realm of a social science inspired by Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology. The life-world accounts for the pragmatic issues such as temporal and spatial structures. Intersubjectivity is the basis for living and sharing the understanding of the life-world with others. Both concepts must be acknowledged in order to understand the making and shaping of the social. Lastly, we argue that intersubjectivity is an interactional process that expresses the experiential tension between the individual-subjective and the social-objective, of the social world and an antidote against the objectification of social life.
Highlights
The phenomenological philosophy view has influenced the social sciences in paradoxical ways
There was a difficulty in finding an adequate approach to this movement by social scientists, in part because of the lack of proper interpretation of phenomenology itself and because it was seen in a depreciatory manner, as a metaphysics or even as a type of esoteric language very hard for an outsider to apprehend
The purpose of this paper is to present some ideas of Alfred Schutz’s approach and understanding of phenomenology as a way to apply them in the social sciences
Summary
The phenomenological philosophy view has influenced the social sciences in paradoxical ways. Phenomenology emerges as a counterpoint to neo-positivism with its objectivist perspective that Husserl considered erodes and even eliminates the meaning and role of the subject in the knowledge-making process. Phenomenology, under his perspective, rescues the centrality of the being in philosophy and in Science. This is the reason why Husserl wanted to develop a Science or Philosophy of Consciousness in order to explain its role in the production of knowledge He thought this could be used in any science or philosophy that would, gain background and density from exploring these relationships.
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