Karlheinz Muhr Library

Der Sinnhafte Aufbau der Sozialen Welt

1932

[Title Page and Preface]: The title page and preface of Alfred Schütz's seminal work. Schütz outlines his project to provide a philosophical foundation for Max Weber's interpretive sociology using the phenomenology of Hu...

Edmund Husserl Max Weber Methodology Phenomenology Ideal Type Rationality determinism Causality Teleology Interest Rates legal theory Hans Kelsen Ludwig von Mises expectations Austrian School Marginal Utility

Table of Contents · 70 segments

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Title Page and Prefacetheoretical

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Table of Contentstheoretical

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Section 1: Introductory Investigations - The Problem of Sociology's Scientific Charactertheoretical

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The Achievements and Limits of Max Weber's Sociologytheoretical

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The Need for a Phenomenological Foundation of the Social Sciencestheoretical

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Critique of Weber's Concept of Meaningful Actiontheoretical

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The Problem of the Alter Ego and Subjective Meaningtheoretical

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Critique of Weber's 'Current' and 'Motivational' Understandingtheoretical

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Subjective and Objective Meaning in Social Sciencetheoretical

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Transition to Constitutive Analysis: Action vs. Acttheoretical

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Note on Phenomenological Methodtheoretical

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Section 2: The Constitution of Meaningful Experience - Duration, Retention, and Reproductiontheoretical

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Meaning-Giving Experiences and Spontaneous Activitytheoretical

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The Concept of Action: Project and Protentiontheoretical

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Conscious Action and its Evidencetheoretical

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The Evidence of Conscious Action and the Role of Phantasytheoretical

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The Temporal Distinction Between Action and Acttheoretical

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Voluntary Action and the Problem of Choice (Bergson's Critique)theoretical

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Polythetic and Monothetic Acts in Decision Makingtheoretical

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Summary: Clarification of the Original Concept of Meaningtheoretical

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Attentional Modifications and the 'Attention à la vie'theoretical

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Context of Experience: Meaning-Context and Experience-Contexttheoretical

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The Structure of the World of Experience and Interpretive Schemestheoretical

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The Motivational Context as a Meaning-Contexttheoretical

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Critique of Weber's Theory of Motivationtheoretical

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The 'In-Order-To' Motive (Um-zu-Motiv)theoretical

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The Constitution of the Action Projecttheoretical

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The Genuine 'Because' Motive (Das echte Weil-Motiv)theoretical

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Choice, Interest, and the Transition to Intersubjectivitytheoretical

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Foundations of a Theory of Understanding Otherstheoretical

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The Inaccessibility of Subjective Meaningtheoretical

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Simultaneity and the Stream of Consciousness of the Othertheoretical

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Levels of Understanding: From Self-Interpretation to Understanding Otherstheoretical

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Understanding Signs and Communicationtheoretical

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The Process of Genuine Understanding of Otherstheoretical

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Expressive Movements vs. Expressive Actionstheoretical

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Theory of Signs and Sign Systemstheoretical

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Subjective and Occasional Meaning of Signstheoretical

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The Dialectic of Meaning-Setting and Meaning-Interpretationtheoretical

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The Motive of Communicationtheoretical

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Product and Evidence: Subjective vs. Objective Meaningtheoretical

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Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciencestheoretical

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Introduction to the Structural Analysis of the Social Worldtheoretical

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Social Regions: Umwelt, Mitwelt, Vorwelt, and Folgewelttheoretical

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Critique of Max Weber's Concept of Social Actiontheoretical

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The Social Relationship: Einstellungsbeziehung and Wirkensbeziehungtheoretical

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The Motivational Structure of Social Relationshipstheoretical

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The Social Environment and the We-Relationshiptheoretical

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Analysis of the Environmental Social Relationshiptheoretical

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Environmental Observationtheoretical

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Transition to the Problem of the Social Contemporary Worldtheoretical

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Continuous Social Relationships and the Shift to Anonymitytheoretical

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The Gradations of Anonymity in the Contemporary Worldtheoretical

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The Alter Ego in the Mitwelt as Ideal Typetheoretical

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The Constitution of the Personal Ideal Typetheoretical

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The Genesis of Typification: Material and Personal Ideal Typestheoretical

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The Relativity of Ideal Types and the Problem of Relevancetheoretical

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Anonymity and Content-Fullness of Ideal Typestheoretical

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Social Relationships and Observation in the Mitwelttheoretical

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Das Verstehen der Vorwelt und das Problem der Geschichtetheoretical

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Die Kontinuität der Geschichte und die Folgewelttheoretical

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Rückblick auf die bisherigen Untersuchungsergebnissetheoretical

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Die soziale Mitwelt und die Typisierungtheoretical

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Die mitweltliche Beobachtung und das Problem der Sozialwissenschaftentheoretical

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Die Funktion des Idealtypus in Webers Soziologietheoretical

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Kausaladäquanz und Sinnadäquanztheoretical

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Objektive und subjektive Chance sowie Rationalitättheoretical

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Objektiver und subjektiver Sinn in den Sozialwissenschaftentheoretical

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Schluß: Hinweis auf weitere Problemetheoretical

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