The Temporal ‘Succession’ of Here and Now Situations”

Schütz and Garfinkel on Sequentiality in Interaction

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ID11275520
AuthorsLilian Coates (0000-0002-7760-9362, Goethe University Frankfurt, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume45
Issue3
Pages469-491
Publication date2022-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-8548 • E-ISSN: 1572-851X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10746-022-09632-8
OpenAlexW4290993935
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited42

The article re-examines the relationship between the works of Alfred Schütz and Harold Garfinkel, focusing on their respective approaches to temporality in interaction. Although there are good reasons to emphasize the differences between Schütz’s notion of individual projects of action and Garfinkel’s interest in communicative sequencing, there is also an interesting historical connection. In order to elucidate this connection, the article provides a close reading of the steps that lead Schütz from his premise of ‘egological’ time consciousness to his understanding of the reflexive and interactive process of meaning establishment and interpretation developed in his first book, The Phenomenology of the Social World (1967 [1932]). The article reflects further upon which aspects of Schütz’s considerations resonated with Garfinkel in his formative years and how Garfinkel related to them variously in his later development of ethnomethodology. Hence, it appears that Garfinkel’s ethnomethodology successively departs from many of Schütz’s premises while simultaneously incorporating and further developing some of his notions on the sequential organization and temporal flux of interactive processes

Contingency · Epistemology · Ethnomethodology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Phenomenology (philosophy · Premise · Rationalization (economics · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Temporality · Critical Realism in Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Social Representations and Identity

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