Abstract
AbstractPhenomenological sociology is one of the most recognized approaches for explaining the constitution of social behaviour and the construction of social reality. To this day, phenomenological sociology usually belongs to the tradition of Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and to Alfred Schütz's mundane phenomenology, thus generally presenting itself as sociology of lifeworld, sociology of everyday life, and sociology of knowledge. In contrast to this, this paper intends to outline an alternative kind of phenomenological sociology that finds its philosophical foundation in Hermann Schmitz's “New Phenomenology”. With regards especially to Schmitz's theory of the felt body (“Leib”) and his theory of situation, the basic principles of Neophenomenological Sociology (NPS) will be introduced. Their main components are (1) felt body and affective involvement as the pre‐personal apriori of sociality, (2) felt‐bodily communication as the basic unit of sociality, and (3) joint situations as the socio‐ontological foundation and empirical manifestation of sociality. With these specific key concepts, NPS proves itself to be a socio‐theoretical approach whose foremost strength is that it can identify and properly analyse the pathic dimensions of social behaviour and social situations that social sciences tend to overlook.
Highlights
Ever since the fundamental theoretical works of Alfred Schütz, phenomenology has been among the most important philosophical disciplines for sociology
Phenomenological sociology usually belongs to the tradition of Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and to Alfred Schütz's mundane phenomenology, generally presenting itself as sociology of lifeworld, sociology of everyday life, and sociology of knowledge
This paper intends to outline an alternative kind of phenomenological sociology that finds its philosophical foundation in Hermann Schmitz's “New Phenomenology”
Summary
Ever since the fundamental theoretical works of Alfred Schütz, phenomenology has been among the most important philosophical disciplines for sociology. While NPS places particular attention on felt-bodily communication as the basis (and product) of joint situations, it pays regard to the human competence to explicate out of situations By employing this form of explication of singular meanings (states of affairs, programs, problems) out of the internally diffuse meaningfulness of situations, humans succeed in getting through and even being in control of the chaos of the situation, bringing order to the world This occurs mainly through the impact that states of affairs, programs and/or problems of this situation have on one's “primitive present”,9 involving him in an embodied-affective manner to the extent that the situation – and especially its programmatic content – becomes part of the feltbodily disposition (e.g. by means of repetition) of the person In this sense, marriage as an institution is rooted in felt-bodily-based rules, norms, judgments, expectations, fears, hopes, desires etc. This reconstruction aims for a better understanding of emergence, processes, and structures of joint situations
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