Life-World, Intersubjectivity and Culture

The volume casts a new look at the legacy of social phenomenology, demonstrating how such concepts as intersubjectivity, life-world, milieu, social inconsistency and symbolic transcendence can be applied to the study of sociocultural transformations.

This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff's (19342013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations.

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El bieta Häas, the editor of the volume, is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests are cultural sociology, social symbolism, and interpretative social theory.

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This volume commemorates Richard H. Grathoff s (1934 2013) contribution to interpretative sociology. Reconsidering the legacy of social phenomenology, it demonstrates the usefulness of concepts such as life-world, milieu and symbolic transcendence in the studies of sociocultural transformations.

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Contents: Zdzis aw Krasnod bski: Grathoff s Life-World Thomas S. Eberle: Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Interpretive Sociology: Finding a Pathway Through Divergent Strands Tadeusz Szawiel: Life-World as an Object of Theory and as a Life-Horizon Ingeborg K. Helling: «Mirror Neurons»: A Material Base for Phenomenological Reflection on Intersubjectivity? A Review Essay Gallina Tasheva: Social Inconsistencies as a Problem of Social Knowledge Steven Vaitkus: The Depth Juncture of Symbolic Transcendence Arising from Alfred Schutz and Karl Jaspers, and the Path Towards a Humanistic Self-Education Fritz Schütze: Artificial Classifications in State Socialism vs. Typification Processes in the Existential World of Everyday Life as Envisioned by Richard Grathoff El bieta Häas: Symbolic Transformations: State Symbolism and the Fall of Communism in Poland Dennis Smith: Coping with Captivity: The Social Phenomenon of Humiliation Explored Through Prisoners Dilemmas Lorenza Gattamorta: Hans Joas and Peter L. Berger: Self-Transcendence in the Age of Contingency Hubert Knoblauch: Communicative Constructivism and the Communication Society Marek Czy ewski: «Under What Circumstances Do We Think Things Real?» Don Quixote, Social Theory and the Case of Knowledge-Based Society Ulf Matthiesen: A Phenomenologist Goes to Town! «Spatial Turn,» «Urban Terroir» and the Life-World/Milieu-Paradigm: Strengthening Recent Phenomenological Approaches in City Research Ewa Nowicka: Opportunities and Limitations of Intercultural Communication: Doing Social Anthropology in the Field Rafä P. Wierzchos awski: Florian Znaniecki, Alfred Schutz, Milieu Analysis and Experts Studies.