Alfred Schutz
Developed phenomenological sociology, focusing on the subjective meanings and interpretations that individuals bring to social life.
Quotes by Alfred Schutz
The social world is a world of projects.
Knowledge is socially distributed.
The stranger is a particular type of social actor.
Relevance is the key to understanding social action.
The life-world is the ground of all scientific thought.
We are born into a world already meaningful.
The tufts of conversational common-sense provide the essential background for the paramount reality.
Social relations are mediated by typifications.
The reflective attitude suspends the natural attitude.
Memory is not a passive storehouse but an active reconstruction.
The world is not just there, but it is there for us.
In the social world, meaning is intersubjective.
The epoché of the natural attitude opens the phenomenological field.
Everyday life is a realm of practical purposes.
The anonymous structures of the social world constrain the individual.
Science is a finite province of meaning within the life-world.
The past is sedimented in the present.
Communication is the reciprocal perspective-taking.
The individual is a system of motives.
The social sciences must start from the actor's point of view.