Thomas S Eberle
Biographic Data
| ID | 79927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas S Eberle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas S |
| FAMILY NAME | Eberle |
| SIGNATURE | EBERLE T S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St.Gallen |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9769-7892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Methodological Concept of Adequacy from a Historical Perspective
The aim of this essay is to reconstruct the history of the methodological concept of adequacy, its origin, its development and shifts in conception. The concept of “adequate causation” was introduced by physiologist Johannes von Kries based on his theory of probability. He proclaimed that the contrary of an “accidental” causation is not a “necessary” causation but an “adequate” causation, which means that a result is caused with a certain, signif…
Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations
Was macht Geschworene zu Geschworenen?
Spielarten phänomenologischer Soziologie
Finding Self, Sense, and Sense Making after a Cerebral Hemorrhage
This essay presents an analysis of a patient’s experiences after she had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was put into an artificial coma. Her husband, a sociologist, collected a wealth of data during her many years of recovery. When she recovered, they collaboratively reconstructed and analyzed what she had experienced. Phenomenological concepts proved helpful for interpreting the patient’s experiences at different stages, including her disorien…
Variations of constructivism
Eberle demonstrates variations of constructivism, starting with the epistemological, methodological and theoretical assumptions of Berger and Luckmann’s new sociology of knowledge and comparing it with cognitive or radical constructivism, empirical constructivism in ethnomethodology and science studies, social constructionism in social psychology and communicative constructivism in sociology. He argues that, as “social constructivism” has several…
Exploring Another's Subjective Life-World
Regarding the relationship between phenomenology and the social sciences, significantly different traditions exist between German-speaking countries and the Anglo-Saxon world, which create many misunderstandings. Phenomenology is not just a research method; in its origin, it is a philosophy and has epistemological and methodological implications for empirical research. This essay pursues several goals: First, some basic tenets of Husserl's phenom…
Subjektive Erfahrung, intersubjektive Verständigung und Sozialität. Phänomenologische Erörterungen
Methodological Implications of Phenomenological Life-World Analysis
Phenomenological Sociology Reconsidered
Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Ethnomethodology’s Program
Der Schweizer als Sinnbastler
Wenn es darum geht, einen lieben Freund und Kollegen zu ehren, tut man gut daran, sich auf seine Eigenheiten und Besonderheiten zu besinnen und auf solche Bezug zu nehmen. Ronald Hitzler hat deren viele, und so hat man die Qual der Wahl. Dass diese unversehens zur Wahl der Qual mutieren kann, hat Hitzler (1993) nicht nur in einer besonders wagemutigen und abenteuerlichen Feldstudie anschaulich beschrieben, sondern resultiert auch aus den grundsät…
The Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Phänomenologie und Ethnomethodologie
Nach einer einprägsamen Formel von (1979: 196ff) ist Phänomenologie Philosophie, Soziologie dagegen Wissenschaft. Die Perspektive der Phänomenologie sei egologisch, jene der Wissenschaft kosmologisch. Die Methode der Phänomenologie sei reflexiv, jene der Wissenschaft induktiv. Das Ziel der Phänomenologie sei es, »die universalen Strukturen subjektiver Orientierung in der Welt zu beschreiben«, das Hauptziel der Wissenschaft dagegen, »die allgemein…
Unter Aborigines - Reflexionen über eine exotische Fremdheitserfahrung
Ethnomethodologische Konversationsanalyse
Die Konversationsanalyse (KA) ist ein Forschungsansatz, der zum Ziel hat, die formalen Prinzipien der sozialen Organisation sprachlicher und nichtsprachlicher Interaktionen zu untersuchen. Die Analyse erfolgt strikt empirisch, und zwar anhand von Tonband- und Videoaufzeichnungen von realen Geschehensabläufen in „natürlichen“ Situationen. Diese Aufzeichnungen werden möglichst detailgenau transkribiert und unter der leitenden Prämisse analysiert, d…
Dislocation Policies in Western Europe
Within the past two decades, the “brutal American management methods,” which caused a national upheaval against Firestone in the 1970s, have become common practice in Swiss and other European corporations. These practices include global sourcing, dislocation of work to Third World countries, and workforce reductions by rationalization. In the middle of this general trend, Volkswagen in Germany set a countermodel: by introducing the four-day workw…
Dislocation Policies in Western Europe
Within the past two decades, the “brutal American management methods,” which caused a national upheaval against Firestone in the 1970s, have become common practice in Swiss and other European corporations. These practices include global sourcing, dislocation of work to Third World countries, and workforce reductions by rationalization. In the middle of this general trend, Volkswagen in Germany set a countermodel: by introducing the four-day workw…
Ethnomethodologische Konversationsanalyse
Die Konversationsanalyse (KA) ist ein Forschungsansatz, der zum Ziel hat, die formalen Prinzipien der sozialen Organisation sprachlicher und nichtsprachlicher Interaktionen zu untersuchen. Die Analyse erfolgt strikt empirisch, und zwar anhand von Tonband- und Videoaufzeichnungen von realen Geschehensabläufen in „natürlichen“ Situationen. Diese Aufzeichnungen werden möglichst detailgenau transkribiert und unter der leitenden Prämisse analysiert, d…
Unter Aborigines - Reflexionen über eine exotische Fremdheitserfahrung
Phänomenologie und Ethnomethodologie
Nach einer einprägsamen Formel von (1979: 196ff) ist Phänomenologie Philosophie, Soziologie dagegen Wissenschaft. Die Perspektive der Phänomenologie sei egologisch, jene der Wissenschaft kosmologisch. Die Methode der Phänomenologie sei reflexiv, jene der Wissenschaft induktiv. Das Ziel der Phänomenologie sei es, »die universalen Strukturen subjektiver Orientierung in der Welt zu beschreiben«, das Hauptziel der Wissenschaft dagegen, »die allgemein…
Der Schweizer als Sinnbastler
Wenn es darum geht, einen lieben Freund und Kollegen zu ehren, tut man gut daran, sich auf seine Eigenheiten und Besonderheiten zu besinnen und auf solche Bezug zu nehmen. Ronald Hitzler hat deren viele, und so hat man die Qual der Wahl. Dass diese unversehens zur Wahl der Qual mutieren kann, hat Hitzler (1993) nicht nur in einer besonders wagemutigen und abenteuerlichen Feldstudie anschaulich beschrieben, sondern resultiert auch aus den grundsät…
The Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and the Methodology of the Social Sciences
Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Ethnomethodology’s Program
Phenomenological Sociology Reconsidered
Subjektive Erfahrung, intersubjektive Verständigung und Sozialität. Phänomenologische Erörterungen
Methodological Implications of Phenomenological Life-World Analysis
Exploring Another's Subjective Life-World
Regarding the relationship between phenomenology and the social sciences, significantly different traditions exist between German-speaking countries and the Anglo-Saxon world, which create many misunderstandings. Phenomenology is not just a research method; in its origin, it is a philosophy and has epistemological and methodological implications for empirical research. This essay pursues several goals: First, some basic tenets of Husserl's phenom…
Variations of constructivism
Eberle demonstrates variations of constructivism, starting with the epistemological, methodological and theoretical assumptions of Berger and Luckmann’s new sociology of knowledge and comparing it with cognitive or radical constructivism, empirical constructivism in ethnomethodology and science studies, social constructionism in social psychology and communicative constructivism in sociology. He argues that, as “social constructivism” has several…
Finding Self, Sense, and Sense Making after a Cerebral Hemorrhage
This essay presents an analysis of a patient’s experiences after she had a sudden cerebral hemorrhage and was put into an artificial coma. Her husband, a sociologist, collected a wealth of data during her many years of recovery. When she recovered, they collaboratively reconstructed and analyzed what she had experienced. Phenomenological concepts proved helpful for interpreting the patient’s experiences at different stages, including her disorien…
Was macht Geschworene zu Geschworenen?
Spielarten phänomenologischer Soziologie
Some Reflections on a Phenomenology of Organizations
The Methodological Concept of Adequacy from a Historical Perspective
The aim of this essay is to reconstruct the history of the methodological concept of adequacy, its origin, its development and shifts in conception. The concept of “adequate causation” was introduced by physiologist Johannes von Kries based on his theory of probability. He proclaimed that the contrary of an “accidental” causation is not a “necessary” causation but an “adequate” causation, which means that a result is caused with a certain, signif…
Philosophy (14 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Sociology and Education Studies (8 works) · Social science (6 works) · Critical Realism in Sociology (5 works) · Interpretative phenomenological analysis (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works)