Phenomenological Sociology: Experience and Insight in Modern Society

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SAGE, 21 mar 2006 - 248
Contemporary society constitutes a different form of modernity and Ferguson′s innovative and thoughtful analysis calling for a return to phenomenology demonstrates that a relatively neglected perspective within contemporary sociological thought continues to provide significant insights into modern experiences′
- Barry Smart, Portsmouth University

This may very well be the most thorough and authoritative analysis of phenomenological sociology ever achieved."
- W.P. Nye , Hollins University

What is phenomenological sociology? Why is it significant? This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century.

The social character of phenomenology is explored in its relation to the concern in twentieth century sociology with questions of modern experience. Phenomenology and sociology come together as ′ethnographies of the present′. As such, they break free of the self-imposed limitations of each to establish a new, critical understanding of contemporary life. By reading phenomenology sociologically and sociology phenomenologically, this book reconstructs a phenomenological sociology of modern experience.

Erudite and assured, this book opens up a series of new questions for contemporary social theory that theorists and students of theory can ill-afford to ignore. The text contains a treasure trove of insights and propositions that will stimulate debate and research in both sociology and philosophy.

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the Birth and Rebirth of the Phenomenal
17
Edmund Husserls Clarification of Experience
37
Method and Theme in Development of Phenomenology
62
Phenomenology in Social Theory
83
Implications
101
Historical Sociology of the Natural Attitude
103
Modern Trinitarian Conundrums
126
Sociological Reductions
159
Towards Contemporary Inexperience
183
Phenomenological Sociology
208
References
213
Name Index
231
Subject Index
234
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Strona 133 - The great foundation of mathematics is the principle of contradiction or identity, that is, that a proposition cannot be true and false at the same time and that therefore A is A and cannot be non-A.
Strona 133 - The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.
Strona 89 - Since asceticism undertook to remodel the world and to work out its ideals in the world, material goods have gained an increasing and finally an inexorable power over the lives of men as at no previous period in history.
Strona 3 - Newton, with some other of that strain, it is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge...
Strona 89 - This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine -the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with economic acquisition, with irresistible force.
Strona 42 - Every mental phenomenon includes something as object within itself, although they do not all do so in the same way. In presentation something is presented, in judgement something is affirmed or denied, in love loved, in hate hated, in desire desired and so on.
Strona 165 - For there to be a gift, there must be no reciprocity, return, exchange, countergift, or debt. If the other gives me back or owes me or has to give me back what I give him or her, there will not have been a gift...

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