TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gugutzer, Robert
T1  - Beyond Husserl and Schütz. Hermann Schmitz and Neophenomenological Sociology
T2  - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
N2  - 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.
KW  - felt body
KW  - felt‐bodily communication
KW  - Hermann Schmitz
KW  - methodological situationism
KW  - new phenomenology
KW  - situation
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/56503
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-565033
SN  - 1468-5914
SN  - 0021-8308
VL  - 50
IS  - 2
SP  - 184
EP  - 202
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  -