“Listening a lot” Sociology - What is “Phenomenological Sociology”?
- This book explains the basics of sociology and provides an overview of phenomenological sociology.
- Exactly what I needed (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
- A book for people like me who don’t understand phenomenology or sociology well.
- Exactly what I needed (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
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Began when people started to differentiate between society and state
- Like the theory of social contract
- Comte developed positivist sociology
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Various histories and genealogies are described
- It gives the impression that there are diverse positions along the following two axes:
- Macro <-> Micro
- Scientific/Empirical <-> Philosophical(?)
- If you delve deeper into the former, it becomes a discussion of social science, I guess.
- It gives the impression that there are diverse positions along the following two axes:
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- A methodology that suggests suspending the consideration and judgment of objective existence and instead focusing on the subjectivity (the “phenomena” in consciousness)
- That seems to be a good understanding (blu3mo)
- Is this the phenomenological attitude?
- Transcendental subjectivity
- I haven’t grasped this concept very well yet
- I don’t understand the idea of transcendental either
- Does it refer to the assumption that subjectivity has a universality that does not depend on individuals?
- Personally, I don’t find this assumption very convincing (blu3mo)
- I haven’t grasped this concept very well yet
- Criticism of the natural scientific approach
- It argues that there is something that is consciously perceived prior to the mechanisms of science, called the “lifeworld”
- Even if it is considered incorrect from a scientific perspective, it is something that is consciously perceived as reality or meaningful
- Natural science ignores such things
- I think this is a difference in whether we view “scientific explanations” as a dominant worldview or as a tool.
- When viewed as the former, the lifeworld is obscured, so that is certainly not good (blu3mo)
- Therefore, I think the discussion is about viewing the reality model of natural science as a tool in the first place (blu3mo)
- Tool = something that is adapted only when consciously intended to be adapted, that’s the image I’m trying to convey
- It argues that there is something that is consciously perceived prior to the mechanisms of science, called the “lifeworld”
- Inter-subjectivity
- After undergoing phenomenological reduction, it re-explains the interactions with others and reinterprets what we have believed as “objectivity” in a phenomenological manner, I guess? (blu3mo)
- I feel a strong affinity for Husserl’s exploration (blu3mo)(blu3mo)
- His rigorous approach and all
- He came from a background in mathematics and pursued philosophy in his own unique way
- It seems like he would jot down his thoughts and ideas, which gives it a Scrapbox-like flavor, and I feel a sense of familiarity
- A methodology that suggests suspending the consideration and judgment of objective existence and instead focusing on the subjectivity (the “phenomena” in consciousness)