Overview

This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff’s (1934–2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations.

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Author:   Elżbieta Hałas
Publisher:   Peter Lang AG
Imprint:   Peter Lang AG
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   8
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9783631656570

ISBN 10:   3631656572
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   29 March 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Zdzisław Krasnodębski: Grathoff’s Life-World – Thomas S. Eberle: Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Interpretive Sociology: Finding a Pathway Through Divergent Strands – Tadeusz Szawiel: Life-World as an Object of Theory and as a Life-Horizon – Ingeborg K. Helling: «Mirror Neurons»: A Material Base for Phenomenological Reflection on Intersubjectivity? A Review Essay – Gallina Tasheva: Social Inconsistencies as a Problem of Social Knowledge – Steven Vaitkus: The Depth Juncture of Symbolic Transcendence Arising from Alfred Schutz and Karl Jaspers, and the Path Towards a Humanistic Self-Education – Fritz Schütze: Artificial Classifications in State Socialism vs. Typification Processes in the Existential World of Everyday Life as Envisioned by Richard Grathoff – Elżbieta Hałas: Symbolic Transformations: State Symbolism and the Fall of Communism in Poland – Dennis Smith: Coping with Captivity: The Social Phenomenon of Humiliation Explored Through Prisoners’ Dilemmas – Lorenza Gattamorta: Hans Joas and Peter L. Berger: Self-Transcendence in the Age of Contingency – Hubert Knoblauch: Communicative Constructivism and the Communication Society – Marek Czyżewski: «Under What Circumstances Do We Think Things Real?» Don Quixote, Social Theory and the Case of Knowledge-Based Society – Ulf Matthiesen: A Phenomenologist Goes to Town! «Spatial Turn,» «Urban Terroir» and the Life-World/Milieu-Paradigm: Strengthening Recent Phenomenological Approaches in City Research – Ewa Nowicka: Opportunities and Limitations of Intercultural Communication: Doing Social Anthropology in the Field – Rafał P. Wierzchosławski: Florian Znaniecki, Alfred Schutz, Milieu Analysis and Experts Studies.

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Elżbieta Hałas, the editor of the volume, is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests are cultural sociology, social symbolism, and interpretative social theory.

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