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Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science

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In recent decades, the historical social sciences have moved away from deterministic perspectives and increasingly embraced the interpretive analysis of historical process and social and political change. This shift has enriched the field but also led to a deadlock regarding the meaning and status of subjective knowledge. Cultural interpretivists struggle to incorporate subjective experience and the body into their understanding of social reality. In the early twentieth century, philosopher Alfred Schutz grappled with this very issue. Drawing on Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and Max Weber’s historical sociology, Schutz pioneered the interpretive analysis of social life from an embodied perspective. However, the recent interpretivist turn, influenced by linguistic philosophies, discourse theory, and poststructuralism, has overlooked the insights of Schutz and other phenomenologists. This book revisits Schutz’s phenomenology and social theory, positioning them against contemporary problems in social theory and interpretive social science research. The book extends Schutz’s key concepts of relevance, symbol relations, theory of language, and lifeworld meaning structures. It outlines Schutz’s critical approach to the social distribution of knowledge and develops his nascent sociology and political economy of knowledge. This book will appeal to readers with interests in social theory, phenomenology, and the methods of interpretive social science, including historical sociology, cultural sociology, science and technology studies, political economy, and international relations.
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Besnik Pula is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech, USA, where he also serves as Director of the International Studies Program. He is the author of Globalization Under and After Socialism: The Evolution of Transnational Capital in Central and Eastern Europe.

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“Pula’s book offers an important basis to rethink our theoretical apparatus in ways more adequate to understanding our contemporary world. Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science is a fruitful elaboration of social phenomenology and it advances a theoretically informed way to pursue sociohistorical inquiry in the absence of grand theory. Reading Pula’s book should provoke social scientists, serious graduate students, and keen undergraduates to rethink our collective project.” - John R. Hall, Social Forces"Through a sophisticated re-examination of Alfred Schutz’s work, [Pula] shows how Schutz’s theoretical approach is a living resource for rethinking the orientation of interpretive social sciences, analyzing subjective experience in a reflective manner, and critically engaging with the social logic of knowledge and power […]. Alfred Schutz, Phenomenology, and the Renewal of Interpretive Social Science thus offers valuable insights and significant impetus for both Schutzian research and interpretive social science. This book shows that social sciences still have much to learn from phenomenology." - Ekkehard Coenen, Symbolic Interaction

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