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Social Sensitivity: A Study of Habit and Experience

Social Sensitivity: A Study of Habit and Experience

Paperback

Series: Suny the Philosophy of the Social Sciences

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0791402169
ISBN13: 9780791402160
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Sep 1 1990
Pages: 137
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.44 Depth: 9.16
Language: English

The author develops a phenomenological theory of the social structure of immediate experience. At the heart of this study is a theory of habitual sensitivity that originates in the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and John Dewey. The author develops this theory as an alternative to Schutz's theory of taken-for-granted knowledge, which has had a pervasive influence on how phenomenology has been understood and applied within sociology. Each chapter expands on Ostrow's claim that the world is inherently social, by virtue of the sensitivity that immerses us within it before it ever becomes an object of reflection.

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