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Alfred Schutz
Classical Sociological Theory

Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.emory.edu/EDUCATION/mfp/schutz.html. Read the excerpts from Alfred Schutz's work "On Phenomenology and Social Relations" and answer the following questions:

a. How does Schutz characterize the expert?

b. What, according to Schutz, constitutes reality?

c. What is the aim of scientific theorizing?

d. What is the peculiar attention of the disinterested observer?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www.heartfield.demon.co.uk/phenomenon.htm. Read the history of phenomenology and answer the following questions:

a. Who first developed the phenomenological approach?

b. Which sociologists, besides Schutz, were influenced by the phenomenological approach?

c. Who was Edmund Husserl's "brilliant student"?

d. Why did Schutz emigrate to the United States?