Husserl’s Lebenswelt analysis parallels Weber and Thomas’s sociology

Evidence

18 Unnoticed Lebenswelt: Husserl, Crisis, 123–4; see also D. Moran, Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: an introduction (Cambridge & New York: CUP, 2012), 178–217. Husserl’s analysis has a lot in common with that of sociologists such as Max Weber and W. I. Thomas, as well as Alfred Schulz, who later wrote an eloquent essay about disruptions to the ‘world’ of a stranger abroad, partly based on his own experience as an émigré fleeing Nazism (Alfred Schutz, ‘The Stranger: an essay in social psychology’, American Journal of Sociology, 49(6) (May 1944), 499–507. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1414

Categorization

• QUESTION: Schutz’s ‘The Stranger’ essay sounds like a valuable companion reading — phenomenological sociology applied to the émigré experience — worth chasing down.
• XREF: Links phenomenology to sociological tradition (Weber, Thomas, Schutz), a bridge between the two schools the reader’s broader interests likely touch. — connects to: Weber reconciled hermeneutics and positivism through ideal-type heuristic models — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 334; Weber built Protestantism and capitalism as one-sided ideal types against Marxist reductionism; Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Weber reconciled hermeneutics and positivism through ideal-type heuristic models #expands (0.82) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 334
• A secular ethic of republican citizenship can substitute for Weber’s Protestant work ethic. #responds-to (0.78) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 837
• Weber built Protestantism and capitalism as one-sided ideal types against Marxist reductionism #expands (0.75)
• Social relations reduce to structures of knowledge in Schutz’s extreme sociology #expands (0.72)