Beyond Husserl and Schütz. Hermann Schmitz and Neophenomenological Sociology

  • Phenomenological sociology is one of the most recognized approaches for explaining the constitution of social behaviour and the construction of social reality. To this day, phenomenological sociology usually belongs to the tradition of Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology and to Alfred Schütz's mundane phenomenology, thus generally presenting itself as sociology of lifeworld, sociology of everyday life, and sociology of knowledge. In contrast to this, this paper intends to outline an alternative kind of phenomenological sociology that finds its philosophical foundation in Hermann Schmitz's “New Phenomenology”. With regards especially to Schmitz's theory of the felt body (“Leib”) and his theory of situation, the basic principles of Neophenomenological Sociology (NPS) will be introduced. Their main components are (1) felt body and affective involvement as the pre‐personal apriori of sociality, (2) felt‐bodily communication as the basic unit of sociality, and (3) joint situations as the socio‐ontological foundation and empirical manifestation of sociality. With these specific key concepts, NPS proves itself to be a socio‐theoretical approach whose foremost strength is that it can identify and properly analyse the pathic dimensions of social behaviour and social situations that social sciences tend to overlook.

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Author:Robert GugutzerORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-565033
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12240
ISSN:1468-5914
ISSN:0021-8308
Parent Title (German):Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/06/11
Date of first Publication:2020/06/11
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2020/11/10
Tag:Hermann Schmitz; felt body; felt‐bodily communication; methodological situationism; new phenomenology; situation
Volume:50
Issue:2
Page Number:19
First Page:184
Last Page:202
HeBIS-PPN:476611156
Institutes:Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Sportwissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0