Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz's Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780367886868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 152 str.

Marius Ion Benţa

Opis

This book offers a theoretical investigation into the general problem of reality as a multiplicity of ‘finite provinces of meaning’, as developed in the work of Alfred Schutz. A critical introduction to Schutz’s sociology of multiple realities as well as a sympathetic re-reading and reconstruction of his project, Experiencing Multiple Realiti

Spis treści

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction: realities just ‘real enough’

1. Theory and story: in-between encounters

2. Schutz’s methodological journey

3. The Schutzian FPM model

4. Revisiting the Provinces

5. The life of the provinces

6. Methods of experience

7. Experience as discourse

8. Ancient FPM portals: painted screens

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Marius I. Benţa is Associate Lecturer in the Journalism Department of Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania.