Meaning is produced in observers’ minds, not in actors’ intentions.
Evidence
Meaning, in Schutz’s accounts, no longer resides in the actors’ minds (in their intentions) but is relocated in the observers’ minds (see also Campbell 1996, pp. 43–46) and is, in fact, contextually determined and manifested. — Karin Knorr Cetina & Urs Bruegger, Global Microstructures, 64
Categorization
- XREF: Resonates with reader-response theory and with ethnographic accounts of how market meaning is assigned post-hoc by screenside observers rather than intended by trading actors. — connects to: The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 444; An action is defined by conscious intention, not by its effects; Intentionality means the mind’s constant aboutness, not deliberate purpose — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 152 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- The situation is constituted from Others’ meanings rather than from being itself
#corroborates(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 444 - An action is defined by conscious intention, not by its effects
#contradicts(0.85) - Representation meaning arises independently of authorial intention and depends on preexisting social knowledge
#corroborates(0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 743 - Acts can seem intentional yet lack conscious reason at the moment
#expands(0.80) - Human action requires witnessing by other free consciousnesses to retain meaning
#corroborates(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 620 - Intentionality means the mind’s constant aboutness, not deliberate purpose
#corroborates(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 152 - Moral responsibility can attach to acts regardless of the actor’s intentions
#complicates(0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 453 - Intention requires a rupture with the given, illuminating being in light of non-being
#corroborates(0.70) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1144