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The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science

By (author) Robert Gorman

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This study, originally published in 1977, focuses on a critical examination of the life-work of Alfred Schutz, the most important and influential â€˜fatherâ€™ of several recent schools of empirical social research. The author shows why Shutz and his followers fail in their attempts to â€˜humanizeâ€™ empirical social science. The problems they encounter, he argues, are due to their attempt to achieve a methodological synthesis of self-determining subjectivity and empirical criteria of validation, based on Schutzâ€™s heuristic adoption of relevant ideas from Weber and Husserl. This is, in effect, an artificial union of subjectivity and objectivity â€“ their â€˜dual visionâ€™ â€“ that satisfies neither phenomenological nor naturalist perspectives. Dr Gorman suggests that the radical implications of phenomenology must lead to a consistent, socially-conscious method of inquiry, and, in a final chapter, he re-defines the methodological implications of phenomenology with the aid of existential and Marxist categories.

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