Sociology, Ethnomethodology and Experience [Paperback]

In this volume, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology.In this volume, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology. Her broad purpose is to demonstrate the theoretical and methodological advantages phenomenological sociology holds. Thus she offers a selective, introductory exposition of phenomenology, highlighting its relevance for social scientists and undercutting the notion of phenomenology as a non-scientific, subjective, or esoteric method of study.In this volume, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology. Her broad purpose is to demonstrate the theoretical and methodological advantages phenomenological sociology holds. Thus she offers a selective, introductory exposition of phenomenology, highlighting its relevance for social scientists and undercutting the notion of phenomenology as a non-scientific, subjective, or esoteric method of study.In this volume, first published in 1983, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology. Her broad purpose is to demonstrate the theoretical and methodological advantages phenomenological sociology holds. Thus she offers a selective, introductory exposition of phenomenology, highlighting its relevance for social scientists and undercutting the notion of phenomenology as a non-scientific, subjective, or esoteric method of study.Preface; Introduction; 1. The struggle toward critical unity in sociology; 2. Consciousness and constitution; 3. Experience, meaning, and the self; 4. The life-world; 5. Phenomenological methods; 6. Ethnomethodology: an alternative sociology?; 7. Ethnomethodology: a phenomenological sociology?; 8. The idea of phenomenological sociology; Notes; Bibliography; Indices.