Xu Benz Society, The World Significance Of The Structure To Explore

Schutz was the founder of phenomenological sociology, and also a famous phenomenolgist. His research was between phenomenology and sociology. This feature made his theory a special one. He followed Husserl's philosophical ideal which was to find real meaning base for concrete science. But he didn't go after Husserl's transcendental phenomenology pace by pace. On the contrary, he found a theory which was called social world phenomenology through his research on the structure of social world. This dissertation starts from the background of Schutz's theory, ranging from his analysis on the character and structure of social world, to his development of the theory of intersubjectivity, to his expound on the question of knowledge in social world, to his deepen on the methodology of social science from a special angle. Then by compare his life world theory with those of Habermas', develop a evaluation of Schutz's theory. According to the auther, Schutz's deep insight in the premise, structure and philosophical meaning of commonsense world open a new field for philosophical research. It in some sense enhances the trend to life word in modern philosophy. What's more, he emphasized that we should use action instead of consciousness as our starting point, this lay a new foundation for the research of social science methodology. Even though there are many shortcomings within Schutz's theory, his special research on life world which is the basement of philosophy and other science, is of both theoretical and practical values to our research on life world and our construction of modern life world.