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This paintings is dedicated to constructing in addition to expounding the speculation of the cultural sciences of the thinker Alfred Schutz (1899-1959). Drawing on all of Schutz’s seven volumes in English, the booklet exhibits how his philosophical conception contains the reflective clarifications of the disciplinary definitions, easy techniques, and precise tools of specific cultural sciences in addition to their species and genus. The e-book first expounds Schutz’s personal theories of economics, jurisprudence, political technological know-how, sociology, and psychology. It then extends his method of different disciplines, delivering new theories of archaeology, ethnology, and psychotherapy in his spirit which will stimulate the improvement of Schutzian theories in those and different disciplines. the second one a part of the booklet comprises complementary philosophical chapters dedicated to tradition, teams, excellent varieties, interdisciplinarity, that means, relevance, social pressure, and verification.
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Because of its interest in groups or collectivities, it is plainly not a psychological science either, although it can be related to social psychology when methodological individualism is practiced in the search for foundations. , fellow humans who necessarily share time but not necessarily place with a self. Yet it is then not yet clear just what positively differentiates political science from other social sciences in this narrow signification. Schutz reports in a seemingly sympathetic way that there are five analytical disciplines for Talcott Parsons, “each of which refers to a special subdivision of the action scheme as a frame of reference: … [Among these is] Political Science and the scheme of social relations in the special form of power relationships and group schemes” (V 16).
Such scientific constructs are deemed adequate if understandable to participants in everyday life, but this is not to say that they are thereby considered true. The fundamental hypothesis of modern theoretical economics is identified as the principle of marginal utility. Works of Schutz Note: Unless done otherwise, the following works will be cited with the embedded abbreviations as listed down the left margin below, plus the page number(s). I, The Problem of Social Reality, ed. Maurice Natanson (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1962).
Distinctive Methods 37 More generally speaking again, the first paragraph of the Preface of Der sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (1932) includes this list. Among these [basic] concepts are those of the interpretation of one’s own and others’ experiences, meaning-establishment and meaning-interpretation, symbol and symptom, motive and project, meaning adequacy and causal adequacy, and, above all, the nature of idealtypical concept formation, upon which is based the very attitude of the social sciences toward their subject matter.