Schutzian sociology dissolves social relations into structures of everyday knowledge

Evidence

In the work of Schutz, we see the “sociology of knowledge” taken to its most extreme point. We are no longer concerned with the relation between social knowledge and social relations. Social relations are conceived as, essentially, structures of knowledge (provided we treat “knowledge” in its widest, everyday sense, and do not confuse it with systematic ideas, with “ideologies” in their more limited sense). Berger and Luckmann, the modern sociologists who, in The Social Construction of Reality , have tried to advance this line to its farthest limits, put the point succinctly: “The social reality of everyday life is thus apprehended in a continuum of typifications.… Social structure is the sum of these typifications and the recurrent patterns of interactions established by means of them.” — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 348

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Schutzian ‘sociology of knowledge’ position that reduces social relations to typifications.