Unveiling the Non-discursivity of the Lifeworld Experience

An Inquiry into the Taken-for-Grantedness of the Spousal Sexual World of Hong Kong Chinese Couples

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ID2275019
AuthorsWing-Chung Ho (0000-0002-7482-7188, City University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Wing‐chung Ho
Year2012
Volume82
Issue4
Pages601-627
Publication date2012-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociological Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0245 • E-ISSN: 1475-682X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1475-682x.2012.00422.x
OpenAlexW1563150107
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited21

Although the phenomenological thesis of the lifeworld (Lebenswelt) has posited that the intersubjective experience is largely non-discursive, sociologists seldom attend to the dimension of non-discursivity in empirical inquiries. Based on the work of Alfred Schutz, this study first endeavors to explicate that lived experience (Erlebnis) is founded on the non-discursivity of the lifeworld, that is, the pre-predicative background expectancies that make possible the everyday life experience. Then, along the Schutzian line of thinking, two novel research techniques-the surface interview and answer-aire-are designed to delve into the taken-for-grantedness of the lifeworld, using the spousal sexual world as a case in point. This study pioneers a way that the structures of the horizon that lie within the unsaid region of the lifeworld become sociologically and scientifically examinable

Epistemology · Lifeworld · Social science · Sociology · Unsaid · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Gender Studies · German Social Sciences and History · Philosophy · Sociology and Education Studies

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