Abstract
Alfred Schutz, born in Vienna, emigrated in 1938 via Paris to New York. He was founder of the phenomenological approach in sociology, which is one of the main paradigms in the interpretative social sciences . He formulated a theory of the life world and its structures showing how actors produce and understand social reality in everyday interaction and communication. His concepts initiated inquiry into the everyday life of societies (sociology of everyday life) and entered into the mainstream of sociological theory. His methodological suggestions sparked innovations in the field of qualitative methods of social research. Beyond sociology, his ideas were conceived in philosophy and in many fields of cultural sciences.
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