Meaning arises from intersubjective exchanges, not single consciousnesses

Evidence

Schutz held firmly to this phenomenological perspective. But he believed that it could be developed and extended into a rigorously “phenomenological sociology .” 22 The problem was how to account for phenomena in the “real” social world from this phenomenological starting point. Here, Schutz once more made a stealthy return to the terrain of Objective Mind. The intentionality of consciousness was realized—objectivated —in the world through activity. Men then had to live in the structures of meaning which they had objectivated: the meanings inside their heads had “taken form” in the world outside. But these objective “worlds” were not the product alone of the single intentional consciousness, but of the inter-subjective exchanges between consciousnesses. Meaning was therefore produced through this reciprocity—the reciprocity or alignment of perspectives. This “reciprocity of perspectives” was the foundation—the common ground—for the reciprocal processes of “meaning establishment” and “meaning interpretation.” Its most active basis was face-to-face exchange, where each actor is co-present to the other: where they are “consociates.” They share the same perspectives, the same “history,” and constantly come to “construct social reality” together. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 345

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Schutz’s ‘reciprocity of perspectives’ and how objectivation of meaning grounds a phenomenological sociology.
• XREF: connects to: Intersubjectivity arises from synchronizing inner time streams, not from shared mental content — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 67; The fundamental relation between consciousnesses is conflict, not solidarity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1044; The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Intersubjectivity arises from synchronizing inner time streams, not from shared mental content — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures: The Virtual…, 67; The fundamental relation between consciousnesses is conflict, not solidarity — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1044; The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Social structures are objectivated meanings built through inter-subjective exchange #corroborates (0.92)
• The fundamental relation between consciousnesses is conflict, not solidarity #complicates (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1044