Interpretative Origins of Classical Sociology : Weber, Husserl, Schutz, Durkheim, Simmel

by Wanderer, Jules J.

• ISBN13: 9780773460065
• ISBN10: 0773460063
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-25
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Author Biography

Jules J. Wanderer is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Colorado where he twice served as Department Chair.

Table of Contents

Preface by Dr. Horst J. Helle	i
Acknowledgements	iii
Chapter 1: Introduction to Interpretative Sociological Theory	1	(30)
A Study of Interpetation	1	(3)
Interpretation: Not One, But Many.	4	(1)
Hermeneutics: The Science of Interpretation	4	(4)
Interpretation: What Can Be Interpreted and Reinterpreted?	8	(1)
Interpretation: "Truth"?	9	(2)
Alternative Interpretations: Wheels Within Wheels	11	(1)
Debunking	12	(1)
Freud: A Debunking Scheme of Interpretation	13	(3)
Freud: Everyday Life	16	(1)
Marx: A Debunking Scheme of Interpretation	17	(5)
Functionalism: An Alternative Interpretation	22	(6)
What Makes Alternatives Possible? Ambiguity and the Surplus of Meaning	28	(3)
Chapter 2: Founding a New Discipline	31	(16)
Introduction	31	(6)
A Method	37	(2)
Two Sociologies: Terms of the Quantitative- Qualitative Debate	37	(1)
Two Sociologies	38	(1)
Positivism and Measurement: Follow the Leader	39	(3)
Positivism and the Laws of Order and Progress	40	(1)
The Counter Argument	41	(1)
Dilthey	42	(5)
Chapter 3: Weber's Development of Verstehende Sociology	47	(22)
Introduction	47	(1)
A Subject Matter for Sociology	48	(5)
A Unit of Analysis for Social Action: the Individual, Most Certainly not the Collectivity	49	(2)
What Kind of Behavior is Considered for Understanding?	51	(1)
How Many Different Ways to Understand?	52	(1)
The Methods of Sociology	53	(6)
The Method of Logical Possibility	54	(5)
The Method of Verstehen	59	(1)
Verstehen and the Woodchopper	59	(10)
Relativity: The Individual Counterpart to Dilthey's Historically Based World-View	60	(1)
Verstehen: Some Shortcomings	61	(1)
Reflexivity and Relativity	61	(2)
Unwarranted Background Assumptions	63	(1)
Message in a Jar: Prefigured Background Assumptions	64	(1)
Scientist vs. Layman	65	(1)
Verification	66	(3)
Chapter 4: Husserl's Intentional Theory	69	(22)
Introduction	69	(1)
Consciousness and Intentionality	70	(3)
Synthesis: All of Conscious Life is Unified Synthetically	73	(10)
Meaning and Acts of Consciousness	73	(1)
Meaning and Unification	74	(2)
Meaning More	76	(1)
Appresentations: Constituting Intentional Objects Reflect Their Use and Value	77	(4)
Phenomenological Reductions: The Disinterested Observer	81	(2)
Standpoints	83	(3)
Intersubjectivity: Shared Meaning	86	(5)
Chapter 5: Schutz's Repair of Weber's Verstehende	91	(38)
Introduction	91	(6)
The Question of Motives and Subjective/Objective Meaning	91	(3)
The Question of Meaning and Motive: Because and In Order To	94	(1)
The Question of Acts and Action	95	(1)
The Question of Individualistic Bias	96	(1)
The Repair: An Interpretative Theory Based on Phenomenological Sociology	97	(9)
Constituting Intentionalities; The Experiential Flow	98	(1)
Acts of Consciousness	99	(1)
Out of the Flow: Intentional Objects	100	(3)
Metaphors and Constitutive Intentionalities	103	(1)
Societal Sources of Attachment: Discursive Communities	103	(3)
Choice and Selection: Multiple Meaning-Contexts and Alternative Interpretations	106	(8)
Choice: To Choose or Not to Choose	107	(1)
Interests	108	(1)
Themes, Choice, and Selection	108	(2)
Other Factors in Choice: The Here and Now: Pragmatic Exigency	110	(1)
Other Factors in Choice: Power	111	(1)
Choice and Exhaustiveness	112	(1)
Attitudes are Biased and Observers are not Disinterested	113	(1)
The Natural Attitude	114	(2)
Typifications and Intersubjectivity: Shared Meanings	116	(13)
Typifications or Social Recipes	119	(2)
Constitutive Typicality: Horizons	121	(1)
Typifications and Intersubjectivity	122	(7)
Chapter 6: Durkheim's Sociologism: Social Constructions of Reality	129	(28)
Introduction	129	(1)
From Kant to Sociology's Subject Matter	130	(6)
Metaphors	135	(1)
Criticisms	136	(4)
The Shift	138	(2)
The Symbolic Order	140	(17)
Abstract, Not Concrete	141	(2)
Not Individual but Social	143	(3)
Not Metaphysical but Social Things	146	(2)
Associational, not Ontological. Something Added	148	(4)
A Vast Symbolism	152	(5)
Chapter 7: Simmel's "Forms of Experiencing"	157	(30)
Introduction	157	(2)
Forms of Experiencing and Their Social Origins	159	(2)
The Social Origins of Societal Forms	160	(1)
Sociology's Subject Matter	161	(7)
Abstract, not Concrete, not Individual, but Social	161	(1)
Not Metaphysical	162	(2)
Reality	164	(1)
Not Ontological, Meaning is Added: Sociation	165	(3)
Simmel's Form and Content: The Struggle Met	168	(2)
Simmel's Form arid Content: Some Criticisms	170	(2)
Simmel's Form and Content: Disassembled	172	(2)
Simmel's Form and Content: Examples	174	(5)
The Adventure	174	(4)
Secrets	178	(1)
The Stranger	178	(1)
General Types	179	(8)
Notes	187	(22)
Bibliography	209	(20)
Index	229