Schutz's Phenomenology Research Articles

Online Slot Games Addiction Phenomenon Case Study of Cultural Anthropology Students Batch 2020 Isi Padangpanjang

This research discusses the phenomenon of game online slot addiction, a case study of Cultural Anthropology students class of 2020 at ISI Padangpanjang. The aim of this research is to describe the factors behind and the consequences of the online slot game addiction phenomenon in Cultural Anthropology students class of 2020 at ISI Padangpanjang. The theories used are Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology theory and Dominic Strinanti's Popular Culture theory. The research method used is qualitative research. Data collection techniques are field observations, interviews and documentation. The findings from this research are that there are several factors that make Cultural Anthropology students class of 2020 addicted to playing online game slot online, such as: high curiosity, trying out luck, filling in gaps, and a friendly environment. Then the consequences caused by gameslotonline addiction include dependency, lack of sleep and disturbed activities, not focusing on studying and talking dirty and rude.

The Phenomenon of Using OMI Social Media as a Means of Online Dating

This study concerns the phenomenon of using the online dating app OMI where we can get acquainted and date online. OMI is the latest online dating app, where women and men can do online dating activities through conversations, exploring various friendship relationships, and sexual desires. The theory used in looking at the phenomenon of using the OMI online dating application is Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology. The data mining used is qualitative research with a descriptive approach, which is research that focuses on the use of data that will be described in written and oral form based on the informants studied by conducting in-depth interviews with Generation Z in 1996-2009 in the sidoarjo and Surabaya areas. The results showed that the use of online dating applications aims as entertainment, finding a partner, expanding friendships. Teenagers who use online dating apps have an understanding of online dating through OMI social media as a positive and efficient thing in order to know the good and bad of online app users.

Personal Branding Vegan Influencer di Instagram

Indonesia is the 16th best country to live a vegan lifestyle. Even so, the number of vegans in Indonesia is still small. The purpose of this research is to find out the meaning of vegan for vegan influencers, the motives of vegan influencers in building personal branding on Instagram, and vegan influencer communication experiences in building personal branding on Instgaram. The theory used in this research is Schutz's Phenomenology Theory and Symbolic Interaction Theory by George Herbert Mead. This research uses the phenomenological method and constructivism paradigm. The results of this study from 10 subjects, indicate that vegan influencers define vegan as and for health, environment, ethics, and food. The vegan influencer motives are categorized into 2 categories, firstly because-motive and in-order-to-motives. Vegan influencer communication experiences in building personal branding on Instagram are divided into two, namely the communication experience when you first became a vegan influencer on Instagram and after becoming a vegan influencer on Instagram. The advice that can be given from this research is that vegan influencers are expected to be more consistent in creating content, increase content about simple vegans, better understand and frequently use Instagram features, and for further research it is hoped that it can develop research on vegan influencers in the influencer marketing aspect.

Vivência de responsáveis por adolescentes na vacinação contra o papilomavírus: estudo fenomenológico

Objetivo: compreender a vivência de responsáveis por adolescentes em relação a vacinação contra o papilomavírus humano. Método: estudo de natureza qualitativa fundamentado na Fenomenologia Social de Alfred Schütz. Os dados foram coletados, no período de outubro a dezembro de 2014, por meio de entrevistas com 14 responsáveis por adolescentes que aceitaram ou não a vacinação. Resultados: os significados expressos indicam os motivos para vacinar as adolescentes: para prevenção; para assegurar um futuro melhor à filha; para a filha ser mais saudável. Os motivos porquê de não permitir vacinar as adolescentes foram: faltou informação sobre a eficácia da vacina e a vacina pode incentivar a iniciação sexual precoce. Conclusão: as experiências e os sentimentos vivenciados pelos responsáveis das adolescentes a respeito da vacina contra o papilomavírus humano, associados ao contexto cultural, possibilitaram ou não a ação de vacinar as adolescentes.

Cotidiano de profissionais da saúde nos cuidados paliativos: um estudo na fenomenologia social de Alfred Schültz

Objetivo: Investigar a compreensão e significados atribuídos às experiências que ocorrem no cotidiano de profissionais da saúde em uma Associação de Apoio a pessoas com câncer em cuidados paliativos. Métodos: Trata-se de pesquisa qualitativa, com abordagem da Fenomenologia Social de Alfred Schütz, que propõe analisar as realidades construídas pelas pessoas e para si próprias, a partir de suas experiências intersubjetivas. Participaram quatro profissionais da saúde que desenvolvem ações de cuidados paliativos no cenário deste estudo. A investigação se deu, inicialmente, pela realização de duas reuniões de aproximação das pesquisadoras com o campo de estudo, ocorridas no período de julho a outubro de 2018. O instrumento utilizado para a coleta das informações foi a entrevista fenomenológica. Resultados: A partir das ideias nucleares, cinco categorias de análise foram definidas: trajetória dos profissionais em cuidados paliativos; cuidados paliativos: significados e motivações; experiências e desafios vividos pela equipe; construção de um cuidado singular e o lidar com a finitude da vida. Conclusão: A partir da compreensão do processo que permeia o trabalho em cuidados paliativos emergiram nos discursos subjetivos dos cuidadores a pessoa com câncer a ‘relação com o outro’ e revelaram desafios diários de convivência; conflitos; reflexões pessoais e de atitude diante do enfrentamento do câncer. As ações sinalizam para a integralidade e a resolubilidade dos cuidados, que requerem um olhar especial para o ser humano.

Fenomenologi Alfred Schutz: Studi tentang Konstruksi Makna dan Realitas dalam Ilmu Sosial

Abstract: Alfred Schutz phenomenology is one of the important thougt in phenomenology development as philosophical movement. Simultantly, Schutz’s phenomenology critizes and modifies Husserl concept of phenomenology and Weber concept of ideal type actions.This paper uses Friedrich concept to give a map of mode scientist in order to clarify Schutz phenomenological position in development of social science. In context of social science Schutz phenomenology position implies to qualitative methods research especially in observation structure to the object of research social emphasize by phenomenology.

Dworkin and Phenomenology of the “Pre‐Legal”?

AbstractRonald Dworkin states in his preface to “Law's Empire” (1986) that he is doing a phenomenology of law. In regards to a phenomenology of law, I wish to investigate Dworkin's theory of law, and subsequently, what is left out in order for it to be considered a phenomenological account. In doing so, I will compare Dworkin's phenomenology of law to Schütz's phenomenology of the social world. The comparison between the two will illuminate what I believe is necessary for law, and that is a Phenomenology of the Pre‐Legal.

Schütz on Objectivity and Spontaneous Orders

Although Schutz's relationship with the Austrian school of economics was an intimate one, Lavoie and other Austrian scholars have challenged (a) Schutz's characterization of praxeology as an objective science of subjective phenomena and (b) the ability of Schutz's phenomenology, which emphasizes the subjective meaning of actors, to really make sense of spontaneous social orders. It is my contention, however, that Schutz can be adequately defended against both these charges. First, for Schutz, the claim that social science is an objective science of subjective phenomena need not imply apodictic apriorism nor solipsism. Second, in spite of his emphasis on subjective meanings, the study of spontaneous social orders need not be difficult to to justify.

“I'd Rather Not Take it, But . . .”: Young Women's Perceptions of Medicines

Little is known about healthy young women's everyday experiences with medicine use and their general perceptions of medicines. In this article, we describe a user-perspective study involving in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 young women between the ages of 16 and 20 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Inspired by Schutz's phenomenology, informants' medicine-taking experiences were considered within the context of their life-worlds. Analysis revealed that the young women possessed predominantly negative perceptions of medicines, which were linked to a preference for complete avoidance of medicines and a desire to maintain a natural body ideal. The essence of participants' experiences was characterized by conflict, as most used medicines at least occasionally, despite the negative perceptions they held. Participants strove to make sense of their medicine-taking practices and provided rationales for their use of medicine, often based on perceptions of need and reduced personal risk.

Entrepreneur's interpretation, innovation and coordination in Austrian subjectivist perspective

This paper utilises the contributions of A. Schutz and F. Hayek to understanding the entrepreneur's subjective interpretation, innovation and coordination. In terms of Schutz's phenomenology, this paper argues that intersubjectivity allows economic activities to be coordinated. When the interpretative framework is disrupted by a novel stimulus, the entrepreneur will project action in the future perfect tense. Through typification, a new stock of knowledge is established to enable the entrepreneur to solve new problems. The society's stock of knowledge in which entrepreneurs share serves as a social coordinator. In terms of Hayek's cognitive psychology, during the perception process, the entrepreneur's mind can classify events coming in from the outside world. If incoming events are repeated, a pattern will register in the mind and become a rule of thumb in decision making. If the mental map fails to give a sensible account of a novel event, the entrepreneur is then in a state of conflicting experience. The result is a gradual reclassification of the events. New rules (and hence institutions) are reestablished to help to solve coordination problems. This paper concludes that both Schutzian and Hayekian perspectives can be synthesised into fruitful tools to understand the business phenomena.

Herbert Spiegelberg and Alfred Schutz: Some Affinities

What may at first sight strike any reader of Herbert Spiegelberg's history of phenomenology, known to literally every student versed in the discipline, is a strange paradox: a solemn dedication at the first page of the book to "the memory of Alfred Schutz, one of the brightest hopes for an authentic phenom? enology in the United States," compared with a relatively small fragment of Spiegelberg's book concerning Schutz's phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1994, pp. 255-256). Yet even in this fragment, which touches only slightly upon the kernel of Schutz's sociophenomenological thinking, we find essential indi? cations concerning the profound affinity of both thinkers, both engaged in a challenging endeavor of laying cornerstones of American phenomenology. The idea of this paper is to explore basic proposals of both thinkers and to shed light on their mutual relationship and their impact on phenomenology and theoretical sociology an impact that can only become greater in the future. Spiegelberg notes that Schutz, by "securing the philosophic foundations of Max Weber's sociology," explores "the 'multiple realities' or 'worlds' in which we find ourselves embedded, from the world of our everyday life to the world of dreams, thus showing how social actors, with their various ex? periences, "play music together" (Spiegelberg, 1994, pp. 255-256). Thus, he sets the philosophical foundations of sociology on the solid ground of his specific understanding of Husserl's phenomenology, an understanding that rejects "Husserl's transcendental phenomenology of intersubjectivity as in? adequate" and chooses instead to focus on "mundane phenomenology" (Spiegel berg, 1994, p. 256), offering a more direct approach to intersubjectivity: a careful study of intersubjectively given and created phenomena, based on bracketing doubts and convictions concerning reality, and on a specific understanding of Husserl's epoch?. The latter question interpretation of Husserl's key notion of epoch? appears to be fundamental to both thinkers, and seems crucial for the im? pact of phenomenology on sociological theorizing, especially in Schutz. Spiegelberg more philosophical in his approach follows Alexander Pf?nder in understanding phenomenological epoch? the basic methodological op? eration in phenomenology as a means of preventing premature assertions of knowledge, and as a continuous effort of grasping things as they are and as they appear, which has principally nothing to do with any "reduction" of cognitive

Toward a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between situated action and planned action models of behavior in information retrieval contexts: contributions from phenomenology

In human–computer interaction (HCI), a successful interaction sequence can take its own momentum and drift away from what the user has originally planned. However, this does not mean that planned actions play no important role in the overall performance. In this paper, the author tries to construct a line of argument to demonstrate that it is impossible to consider an action without an a priori plan, even according to the phenomenological position taken for granted by the situated action theory. Based on the phenomenological analysis of problematic situations and typification the author argues that, just like “situated-ness”, “planned-ness” of an action should also be understood in the context of the situation. Successful plan can be developed and executed for familiar context. The first part of the paper treats information seeking behavior as a special type of social action and applies Alfred Schutz's phenomenology of sociology to understand the importance and necessity of plan. The second part reports results of a quasi-experiment focusing on plan deviation within an information seeking context. It was found that when the searcher's situation changed from problematic to non-problematic, the degree of plan deviation decreased significantly. These results support the argument proposed in the first part of the paper.

Tattoos are like potato chips ... you can't have just one: the process of becoming and being a collector

The following article examines the processes tattoo collectors undergo to become collectors.I examine howtattoo collectors learn that they want to become collectors, are recruited into the social world of tattoo collectors by other collectors and artists, and learn howto interpret their collecting as appropriate for themselves. This ethnographic study is framed in Matza's (1969) theory of the etiology of deviance and Schutz's (1962, 1967) phenomenology.

Between the subject and sociology: Alfred Schutz's phenomenology of the life-world

In his writings Alfred Schutz identifies an artificiality in the concept of “life-world” produced by Edmund Husserl's method of reduction. As an alternative, he proposes to assume intersubjectivity as a given of everyday life. This eradicates Husserl's distinction between “life-world” and “natural attitude.” The subsequent phenomenological project appears to center upon sociological descriptions of the “structures of the life-world” rather than on a search for apodictic truth. Schutz, however, actually retains Husserl's emphasis on the subject. A tension then arises between the assumption of intersubjectivity and individual experience. Rather than clarifying the concept of intersubjectivity, this further problematizes it. Drawing upon Max Weber's work, Schutz responds by developing a rigorous methodology for studying the social world. But having rejected Husserl's reduction and conflated “life-world” and “natural attitude,” Schutz's analysis moves at the level of daily life itself. Consequently, the explanatory categories he proposes appear as abstractions rather than as a way of describing lived experience. Schutz, it is concluded, initiates a scientistic sociology in which the commonsense structures of the “natural attitude of everyday life” are subverted and replaced by the more rigorous knowledge of the “scientific attitude.” Schutz's version of phenomenology is ultimately untrue to the spirit of Husserl's original project; and deploying his work as a clear-cut alternative to scientistic tendencies within sociology is not as straightforward as it might at first seem.

Despedidas as Reflections of Death in Hispanic New Mexico

The Spanish-speaking people of northern New Mexico have a long tradition of written and oral culture that assists them in dealing with death. The recuerdo (remembrance) serves to memorialize the dead and to bring comfort to the family members. This leave-taking is known as la despedida and is normative in the lives of Hispanics. Alfred Schutz's phenomenology of everyday life and contributions by philosophers and folklorists are called upon to examine the recuerdo tradition as it continues to function today.

Restructuring of `the Life-world of Socialism'

This paper analyses the phenomenological tradition with respect to the formation and usage of the concept of `life-world'. The methodological guidelines and research types from Alfred Schutz's social phenomenology are employed as the immediate perspective of the analysis. More specifically, this is an attempt to see and interpret `the life-world of socialism' from the viewpoint of the `structures of the life-world' described by Schutz (1966). Regarding the latter as historically produced allows for their use as a yardstick to interpret the peculiarities of the world of socialism and the present trends of this world's restructuring during the period of transition from a totalitarian to a democratic society, including the construction of a `modern' life-world.

Adding insult to injury: homelessness and health service use

AbstractThis qualitative study considers why homeless people in the least secure forms of accommodation make little use of the primary health care services provided by the National Health Service. Current approaches to this question have tended to develop in a sociological vacuum, unaffected by relevant developments in medical sociology and broader social theory. An approach informed by Alfred Schutz's phenomenology has been used in this article to develop a more theoretical account of homeless people's use of health services than has hitherto been offered. Running throughout this article is the claim that, amongst rough sleepers, there is a distinct culture which makes use of mainstream health services unlikely. Sleeping rough, it is argued transforms the way mainstream health services are seen and renders inappropriate the rules of thumb which govern health and illness behaviour in wider society. In developing these arguments, the view, presented in previous work, that homeless people do not value their health and are apathetic about seeking health care is rejected. Rough sleepers, it is suggested, will use health services if they feel these are provided in an accessible and sensitive way.

Anonymity and the Rise of Universal Occasions for Religious Ritual: An Extension of the Durkheimian Theory

In this research, Durkheim's theory of the universalization of religious beliefs is extended to analyze the occurrence of religious rituals. Drawing upon Schutz's phenomenology of social relations, we amplify theoretically the Durkheimian perspective and suggest that the universalization process is stimulated by an increase in anonymity (as opposed to intimacy) in society. Structural factors consistent with anonymity i.e., increasing population density, political and economic differentiation, and monetary exchange are hypothesized to influence the universalization of ritual occasions. A recursive path model is devised for the hypothesized relationships in the universalization process. We find support for the model using data from a cross-cultural sample of nonindustrial societies. The implications of these results for understanding religious rituals in contemporary complex societies are then discussed.

Schutz in Japan: A brief history

Alfred Schutz had a Japanese fellow scholar, Tomoo Otaka, to whom he expressed his deep gratitude in his book, Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (Sch?tz, 1932: 10).1 Though several Japanese philosophers had known German phenomenologists (E. Husserl, M. Heidegger and others) in the 1920-30s, it is very few who referred to Schutz's thought extensively in Japanese social scientists' circle of that time except for Otaka. This paper deals with a brief bibliographical history of the reception of Schutz's phenomenology in Japan in the period after the end of World War II.

Social Typifications and the Elusive Other: The Place of Sociology of Knowledge in Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology. By Michael D. Barber

Social Typifications and the Elusive Other: The Place of Sociology of Knowledge in Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology. By Michael D. Barber