Phenomenological Sociology Research Articles

Intense Embodiment and Women’s ‘Weather Work’ in Motorcycling

This article aims to develop the underexamined lived experiences of ‘weather work’ via the motorcycling ‘weather world’, addressing the embodied and sensorial learning ways of knowing. Drawing on a phenomenologically inspired approach, I explore the haptic senses of heat and cold via heightening understandings of weather work, aiming to provide key conceptualisations of phenomenological mind-body-world nexus through auto/ethnographic data. This attempts to extend the small, emerging and under investigated literature that utlitises sociological phenomenology to examine the ‘sensuousities’ of ‘intense embodiment’ experienced as a woman on a motorcycle. Key themes that were identified as salient: temperature work, touch, and skin wetness perception. These themes offer novel insights into the intersection between gender, embodiment, and sensorial experiences in motorcycling, enriching sociological phenomenology with a nuanced understanding of the ways ‘weather work’ shapes and is shaped by lived, gendered practices.

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE FORMATION OFCHILDREN'S SOCIO-CULTURAL VALUES

The article analyses theoretical and methodological approaches to the problem of forming children's socio-cultural values based on the principle of multidisciplinarity, from the point of view of the phenomenology of sociology, philosophy, axiology, cultural studies, pedagogy, axiopedagogy and psychology. The author also analyses scientific approaches to the definition of the term «socio-cultural values» and clarifies the essence of the phenomenon. The essence of the concept of socio-cultural values as the basic life meanings on which a person is based in everyday life, in relation to the surrounding reality and which enshrine specific features of a particular culture and model of social behaviour is substantiated. The methodological basis for the process of forming socio-cultural values in children is a combination of personal and activity, axiological, and participatory approaches. The structure of children's socio-cultural values is defined, their typology, criteria, indicators and levels of development are outlined. According to this, the structure of this phenomenon consists of: socio-cultural macro-values; socio-cultural meso-values; socio-cultural micro-values. The components of socio-cultural values are analysed in terms of the importance of the types of values: linguistic and value component, cognitive component, and pragmatic component.

Against Common Sense: On the Utopian Aspect of Concepts

AbstractBy supplementing the work of Schutz, the article critically contests the methodological requirement, widely accepted within phenomenological sociology, that social scientific constructs be consistent with the constructs of common-sense experience of social reality. First, the article proposes that insofar as our everyday ways of speaking and thinking perceive the world as consisting of static and self-consistent entities, adhering to the methodological requirement makes research vulnerable to substantialist assumptions. To be able to account for how things change and involve other entities in their make-up therefore ultimately requires going against common sense along the lines of processual-relational thinking. Second, the article suggests that adhering too strictly to the methodological requirement easily renders social scientific concepts reactive and representational, trapped within the present and the actual. Against this, the article argues for a view of concepts as active and creative, stressing their utopian aspects. Social scientific thinking that gravitates towards creation emphasises potentiality and the future instead of perpetuating the actual and the present: it engages with present practices, institutions, and structures for the benefit of the future. Instead of merely describing or representing the social world as it is, its concepts present a challenge to what is, and thereby open up new ways of thinking, acting, and being and potentially “give a new event to things”.

Motivations and expectations of pregnant women using psychoactive substances during prenatal care: phenomenological study.

Understand the motivations and expectations of pregnant women using psychoactive substances during prenatal care. A qualitative study developed in the light of Alfred Schütz's Theoretical Framework of Phenomenological Sociology, in which 25 pregnant women using psychoactive substances, belonging to a Family Health Strategy, participated. Data production took place between August and November 2022. Two units of meanings emerged: (i) social influences for the performance of prenatal care and (ii) expectation regarding the care to be received by the health professional. Pregnant women do pre-natal due to family influences, for fear of losing their children due to loss of guardianship and concern about the well-being and development of the baby. And, the expectations are that they receive good attention, feel safe when they are attended to by health professionals and also that they are understood and have a relationship of trust. Pregnant women who use psychoactive substances bring motivations for prenatal care linked to the past, such as influences from family members and previous experiences. As for expectations, they are related to the child's health and the care expected by professionals. Finally, strategies to reduce harm during pregnancy of users of psychoactive substances are fundamental for the effectiveness of care.

Philosophy, Governance and Law in the System of Social Action: Moral and Instrumental Problems of Genetic Research

The research analyzes the process of formation of the ethics committee as a new institution in the system of regulation of genetic research. The external factors of this process are the increasing digitalization of medical and research practices, as well as the special situation that is developing in the field of genomic research and the use of genetic technologies, where issues of philosophy, jurisprudence and administration have generated many fundamentally new, and sometimes unexpected contexts. The author shows the similarity and difference of approaches to the inclusion of the ethics committee in the national regulatory systems of different countries and determines the prospects for further integration of the new institution into normative and administrative-regulatory and law enforcement practices. The research applies all the main methods of system analysis and structural and functional analysis, as well as the comparative legal method. At the stage of generalization of empirical material, the author turns to the means and methods of philosophical phenomenology and phenomenological sociology. The study revealed that the ethics committee may have different institutional and regulatory functions in a variety of management and legal systems. Being hybrid in nature, the ethics committee performs various functions, and in various state legal systems and traditions it can combine elements of legislative, executive and judicial power. At times, the ethics committee may go beyond the scope of both a purely administrative and exclusively legal regulator. All this indicates that the integration of this institution into the legal system and into a variety of social practices is far from being completed.

Before reflexivity comes preflexivity

Before reflexivity comes preflexivity

Language and Society in Mead and Schutz

The relationship between language and society has interested many scholars of various disciplines in the social sciences and communication studies. This article compared the viewpoints of two fundamental authors of the interpretive approach in sociology, Alfred Schutz – founder of phenomenological sociology, and George Herbert Mead – one of the founding fathers of the symbolic interactionism’s perspective, on the relationship between language and social interaction. The article first presents the theories of Mead and Schutz on the relationship between language and social interaction, then points out the similarities and the differences between these theories. Finally, the difficulties each theory encounters and how these difficulties are overcome is discussed. Although Mead’s and Schutz’s theories are complementary, the difficulties encountered in Mead's simplistic theory of communication are overcome in Schutz's phenomenological analyses of the everyday life world through the concepts of interpretative and expressive schemes, and of the relationship of We or the mutual tuning in relationship.

S.L. Frank on the Path to Social Philosophy: Experience of Comparative Analysis: G. Simmel, E. Husserl, M. Scheler

The article discusses the evolution of the views of S.L. Frank (1877–1950) on society and culture up until he created a completed socio-philosophical doctrine in 1929. A comparative textologically substantiated analysis of his views with the views of G. Simmel, E. Husserl, M. Scheler is carried out. The author shows that Frank, who adhered to psychologism in his methodology until 1915, makes a choice in favor of Neoplatonism, the latest form of which he finds in Husserl’s transcendental philosophy. The author believes that the concepts of Frank’s social philosophy were formed, among other things, under the influence of G. Simmel’s principles of “philosophical sociology”, E. Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, and his philosophy of social cognition is surprisingly close to M. Scheler’s phenomenological sociology.

IMPLEMENTASI PROGRAM LITERASI SEKOLAH DALAM MENINGKATKAN MUTU PEMBELAJARAN PENDIDIKAN AGAMA ISLAM DI SD YPPSB SANGATTA

This study aims to describe the implementation of the school literacy program, the supporting factors, and the inhibiting factors in improving the quality of Islamic religious education learning at SD YPPSB Sangatta. Qualitative research methods, with a phenomenological sociology approach. The results of this study indicate that the implementation of the literacy movement program in improving the quality of PAI learning at SD YPPSB Sangatta is through a reading program 10-15 minutes before learning begins and a Al-Qur'an reading program, mandatory visits to the library and gift giving programs, holding literacy competitions and the program to make a writing with their own essays. The improvement in the quality of Islamic religious education learning at SD YPPSB Sangatta can be seen from the increased activeness of students in participating in learning activities, increased activeness in reading, increased concentration in listening and being able to express opinions. The increase in students' abilities can also be seen from students' success in doing work and the school's success in creating hafidzul Qur'an through the Bina Cinta Allah activity. Factors supporting the implementation of the literacy movement program at SD YPPSB Sangatta, namely the existence of suitable facilities and services from the library, availability of learning media, support from foundations, and good school leadership in implementing literacy. While the inhibiting factors are the occurrence of the Covid-19 pandemic, the availability of textbooks that still need to be improved, the lack of interest in reading from students' excessive use of gadgets, and the personal motivation of each student in implementing literacy.

Evaluation of the Antecedents of Phenomenological Sociology from Tourism Literature

Nitel araştırma yaklaşımlarından biri olan fenomenoloji, bireylerin fenomenlerle ilgili deneyimlerinin ortaya çıkarılması amacıyla uygulanan yöntemdir. Fenomenolojik sosyoloji ise fenomenolojinin sosyolojik bakış açısıyla yorumlanmasıdır. Bu çalışmada, turizm alanında yapılan fenomenoloji çalışmaları, fenomenolojik sosyolojinin öncülleri kapsamında incelenmektedir. Belirlenen çalışmalardaki öncüllerin yer alma durumu aynı zamanda, sosyolojik bakış açısını da temsil etmesi bakımından önemlidir. Çalışmada, nitel araştırma yöntemlerinden içerik analizi tercih edilmiştir. Yorumlamalarda betimsel analiz kullanılmıştır. Veriler iki veri tabanından (Dergipark ve Anadolu Üniversitesi Kütüphanesi Veritabanları Toplu Arama) derlenmiştir. Analizler sonucunda, fenomenolojik turizm çalışmalarının, fenomenolojiyi sosyolojik olarak açıklamada yetersiz kaldığı görülmüştür. Bu kapsamda, fenomenolojik sosyoloji öncüllerinden “biz ve onlar” ilişkisi, “özneler-arasılık”, “amacıyla ve çünkü” güdüleri ve “toplumsal inşacılık” öncüllerinin çalışmalarda az sıklıkla temsil edildiği; diğer öncüllerden “yaşam dünyası”, “deneyim” ile “paranteze alma” öncüllerinde ise sosyolojik temellendirmelerin kullanıldığı, açıklamalarda bu bağlamlardan sıklıkla yararlanıldığı görülmüştür.

Health Challenges in Everyday Life of Nigerians in Guangzhou City, China

The presence of Africans in Chinese cities has made their healthcare-related issues an expanding area of interest. However, previous studies have not thoroughly explored how Africans live through health problems. This article explores the taken for granted aspect using the analytical frameworks of migration as a social determinant of health and phenomenological sociology. Based on interviews with 37 Nigerians in Guangzhou city, it describes how health and illnesses are lived and the ways that language barrier, cost of health care, immigration status and racism and discrimination intertwine with quotidian occurrences to shape the experiences of health challenges. Migrant networks and community structure provided critical assistance, but the context of labour circumstances and undocumentedness can overstretch these critical sources of support. The article exposes how the broader context of being and living in China determine how Africans experience health challenges in Chinese cities.

Lie for the Other

It is a widely held view that lying is defined in the traditional tripartite model as the conjunction of a statement, the false belief, and the intended deception. Much of the criticisms have been levelled at the third condition—intended deception—with contemporary counterexamples. My main criticism of the traditional and contemporary model of lying centres on that philosophers discard the social existence of the hearer. Schutz‘s phenomenological sociology gives a sheer inspiration to redefine the third condition by taking the hearer as a consciously social being into account. Lying should be an intersubjective action for the Other from the perspective of the liar; it might be, thus, reasonable to assume that there should be commonsense awareness between the speaker and the hearer. This paper, by focusing on this commonsenseness and its typifications , introduces a new approach to the third condition: S must intend that H be induced to believe that p, where p is false. In this regard, once you lie, by being subjected to the taken-for-granted commonsenseness in our daily life, you must try as hard as possible to succeed in deceiving the hearer by stating that p. You, as a typical person, tell a typical lie in typical contexts for typical Others. The focus of attention, therefore, is on the hearer and it is the key to understanding that mere intent to deceive is too broad and unpragmatic for a social human being who always intends to flee the negative consequences of the context in which she has to lie. Making the extension narrower necessitates a new term, anti-social bullshit generally being replied rhetorically as "how can you expect me to believe that?" comprises the excluded cases.

Phenomenological Sociology on Stage

This article proposes an interpretation of the theatrical experience mobilising Alfred Schütz’s theoretical framework and conceptual tools. The text presents the accounts of some theatre operators (actors, directors, students in training, both amateurs and professionals) from whose words it is possible to seize, without forcing or over-interpretate them, the expendability, the relevance and the topicality of the Schützian thought and lexicon. Such an approach allows not only to question and investigate the phenomenological status of the artistic world but also to sketch a “dramatization” of the phenomenology of the social world proposed by the Viennese intellectual. In this perspective the text focuses on the processes of typification, sedimentation and reorganization of the stock of knowledge, on the structuring of the socio-spatio-temporal sphere and on the negotiation between expressed and interpreted meaning, in order to analyse how they work in the theatrical experience.

Phenomenological Sociology of Erasure

Phenomenological Sociology of Erasure

A study on the “excessive” emergency behavior of local governments in the context of the covid-19 epidemic – Based on the perspective of phenomenological sociology

The “excessive” emergency behavior of local governments at all levels in China has caused adverse social impacts during the covid-19 epidemic prevention and control period. From the perspective of phenomenological sociology, this paper uses the method of case study to analyze the motivation of “excessive” emergency behavior in the process of local government epidemic prevention, and understand the “real cause motivation” and “purpose motivation” behind such behaviors. The study found that the “excessive” emergency behavior of local governments is more caused by irrational factors from personal, social risks and local fiscal capacity.

Habit, Type, and Alterity in Social Life. Recoiling Protentions and Social Invisibility

The question of the possibility of a phenomenological sociology is of the utmost importance today. In this paper, techniques in transcendental-genetic phenomenology are introduced as applicable to sociological work. I introduce the concept of recoil, a habit of thought which negatively determines protentions and expectations concerning types sedimented in far retention. Recoil is seen to be an important element in the theory of alterity in social life, including the understanding of alters as invisible. Finally, arguments in favor of the use of the epoché in sociological work is given, as the epoché allows us to engage with the experience of the subject of study without a latent invidious comparison to a naturalistic substructure.

Family motivations and expectations in the care for psychoactive substance users.

To understand the motivations and expectations of family members for the care of users of psychoactive substances. This is a qualitative study using Alfred Schutz's phenomenological sociology framework. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with family members of substance users treated in the inpatient and outpatient clinic of a university hospital in southern Brazil. Data was interpreted through comprehensive phenomenological analysis. Five categories of motivation were identified: for fear and insecurity with the situation; for obligation; due to the relationship of love and connection; to stop suffering; to promote independent living. The motivations of the family members aim to avoid the helplessness of the substance user and to achieve positive changes in the construction of a life without the use of substances, projecting a self-sufficient future for the user.

A Social Phenomenology of Non-Player Characters (NPCs) in Videogames

Non-player characters (NPCs) are a common feature in contemporary videogames, particularly role-playing games (RPGs). Evidence suggests player relationships with these fictional, digital characters can manifest as deeply emotional experiences that can ‘bleed’ off the screen and affect the daily lives of players. However, research in this area is still in its infancy, and as yet has not been given a thorough conceptual treatment. Applying the sociological phenomenology of Alfred Schütz, this paper will examine the structure of the experiences that players have with NPCs, and how these experiences manifest as meaningful social experiences. By a reconceptualization of the player-NPC relationship as a deeply mediated human-human relationship, this paper aims to build a foundation for further phenomenological study into how players engage with fictional characters in immersive videogame worlds.

Особливості формування системи репутаційного менеджменту в умовах розвитку інтернет-технологій

Over the past decades, there has been a trend towards a growing interest of business representatives in their reputation and its impact on the results of operations and, accordingly, development for the future. Awareness of the importance and value of reputation among the leaders of modern business makes it necessary to find ways to build an undeniable reputation, strengthen it among stakeholders and use it effectively. This method is one of the types of social management - reputation management, which arose in connection with the transition of the global market economy to a new business paradigm, when the intangible assets of any organization, primarily its business reputation, become the main competitive advantage and a key condition for stable development. The article examines in detail the phenomenon of reputation as one of the key factors influencing the competitiveness and market value of a brand; modern technologies and mechanisms of reputation management in the framework of modern conditions of digital reality are revealed. We examined the market, corporate and social aspects of business reputation that underlie the reputational management. Practical tools reputation management will be different for different target audiences depending on the kind of relationship they have with organization and how these relationships affect beliefs and feelings of groups. To do this, the organization must have comprehensive information about its current reputation and about the direction in which changes should be made. The need to form a positive reputation of the company in the face of increasing competition is being updated. The author reveals the essence of reputation and reputation management within the framework of the methodology of the phenomenological sociology of knowledge, it is proposed to understand reputation as a phenomenon of everyday life, as a matter of course knowledge about the merits and (or) shortcomings of an object and reputation management as a process of constructing and maintaining a positive reputation of a person or organization as a social reality. Digital technologies are considered as the main mechanism for constructing a company’s reputation as social knowledge in the modern continuum.

Elicitation in the Common-Sense World

This article exhibits the phenomenon of elicitation by way of Alfred Schutz’s phenomenological sociology. It supplements (amplifies, further clarifies) the study with a general system (cybernetic) reading of the phenomenological analysis. The article: (1) deconstructs the phenomenon of elicitation to its constituent elements (processes), (2) correlates the ability of elicitation to accomplish its purpose to the heeding of common-sense knowledge (typifications), (3) discerns effective elicitation as conscientious elicitation, and (4) recommends the elicitor cognitively distance himself from his objective to increase the chances of accomplishing his aim. A review of Schutz’s phenomenology precedes the analysis.