Ruggerone2013
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
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| Author(s) | Lucia Ruggerone |
| Title | Science and Life-World: Husserl, Schutz, Garfinkel |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Ethnomethodology, Garfinkel, Phenomenology, Science, Social sciences, Life-world, Experience, Theory |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Journal | Human Studies |
| Volume | 36 |
| Number | 2 |
| Pages | 179–197 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10746-012-9249-6 |
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Abstract
In this article I intend to explore the conception of science as it emerges from the work of Husserl, Schutz, and Garfinkel. By concentrating specifically on the issue of science, I attempt to show that Garfinkel’s views on the relationship between science and the everyday world are much closer to Husserl’s stance than to the Schutzian perspective. To this end, I explore Husserl’s notion of science especially as it emerges in the Crisis of European Sciences, where he describes the failure of European science and again preaches for a return to the “things themselves”. In this respect I interpret ethnomethodology’s most recent program as an answer to that call originating from a sociological domain. I then argue that the Husserlian turn within ethnomethodology marks the split between Garfinkel and Schutz. In fact I try to show that Schutz’s epistemological work is only partially inspired by phenomenology and that his conception of science retains a rationalist stance that ethnomethodology opposes. In the final section I briefly discuss Garfinkel’s most recent program as a way of closing the gap between theory and experience by linking the topics of science to the radical experiential phenomena.
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