Phenomenology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078056 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gerhard Schutte (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp019 |
| OpenAlex | W4231989738 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Originally of philosophical origin, phenomenology reasoned that the pure meaning of phenomena were only to be subjectively apprehended and intuitively grasped in their essence. It achieved relevance to the social sciences within the tension between logical positivism and interpretivism or (in nineteenth‐century terms) the natural and cultural sciences. At the turn of the twentieth century the neo‐Kantians’ insistence on a distinctive epistemology and methodology for the “cultural” sciences found a well‐considered resonance in German sociological thought (e.g., Weber's). The growth, explanatory force, and extension of natural science's objective perspective and positivistic methodology to the domains of the cultural sciences did not go unchallenged. It was the mathematician‐turned‐philosopher Edmund Husserl who laid the foundation of the twentieth‐century phenomenological movement by taking to task the positivistic approach to psychology
Epistemology · German · Human science · Logical positivism · Natural (archaeology · Natural science · Phenomenology (philosophy · Positivism · Social science · Sociology · German Social Sciences and History · History · Philosophy · Philosophy, Science, and History · Social Representations and Identity
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |