Alfred Schutz

The world of everyday life is the unquestioned, taken-for-granted, and self-evident reality for all of us.

We live in a world of meanings, not of things.

The common-sense world is the paramount reality.

All knowledge of the world, in common-sense as well as in scientific thinking, involves constructs, i.e., idealizations and formalizations peculiar to the respective level of organization of experience.

The social world is always already interpreted by those living in it.

The world of daily life is not only taken for granted as reality by the wide-awake adult, but is also taken for granted as a world that is intersubjective.

The 'we-relation' is the fundamental form of sociality.

The stock of knowledge at hand is a system of recipes for interpreting the world and for acting within it.

The social world is not a world of things, but a world of meanings.

The actor in the social world is always interpreting and constructing his reality.

The world of everyday life is structured by typicalities and relevances.

The problem of intersubjectivity is the central problem of the social sciences.

The social world is a world of multiple realities.

The 'natural attitude' is the fundamental attitude of everyday life.

The world is not given to us, but we constitute it through our experiences.

The social sciences are concerned with the subjective meaning of human action.

The world of common sense is the matrix within which all scientific inquiry takes place.

The 'life-world' is the pre-given, taken-for-granted world of our everyday experience.

The social world is a world of shared meanings and understandings.

The 'typifications' are the basic elements of our knowledge of the social world.