{"product_id":"the-dual-vision-alfred-schutz-and-the-myth-of-phenomenological-social-science-9780415859677","title":"The Dual Vision: Alfred Schutz and the Myth of Phenomenological Social Science","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert Gorman\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Taylor \u0026amp; Francis\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study, originally published in 1977, focuses on a critical examination of the life-work of Alfred Schutz, the most important and influential 'father' of several recent schools of empirical social research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author shows why Shutz and his followers fail in their attempts to 'humanize' empirical social science. The problems they encounter, he argues, are due to their attempt to achieve a methodological synthesis of self-determining subjectivity and empirical criteria of validation, based on Schutz's heuristic adoption of relevant ideas from Weber and Husserl. This is, in effect, an artificial union of subjectivity and objectivity - their 'dual vision' - that satisfies neither phenomenological nor naturalist perspectives. Dr Gorman suggests that the radical implications of phenomenology must lead to a consistent, socially-conscious method of inquiry, and, in a final chapter, he re-defines the methodological implications of phenomenology with the aid of existential and Marxist categories.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45236357103767,"sku":"9780415859677","price":12867.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780415859677.webp?v=1769212730","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-dual-vision-alfred-schutz-and-the-myth-of-phenomenological-social-science-9780415859677","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}