A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Social Distance

LÓPEZ, DANIELA GRISELDA

Human Studies

Springer

Lugar: Dordrecht; Año: 2021 vol. 44 p. 171 - 200

0163-8548

From its very beginning, sociological thought has been concerned with a topic central to our daily lives: social distance. Since inception, the concept of social distance has referred to the relationships of familiarity and strangeness between socialgroups, which is experienced in the social world in terms of We and They.This article covers the main tenets of a Schutzian phenomenological approach tothe study of social distance and group relationships. Specific focus is placed on the different attitudes and valuations of the in-group towards the out-group considered as a stranger, the invisible excess of meaning that emerges in these types of social relationships and the conceptual construction of the Other that explains the phenomenon of discrimination. HUMAN STUDIES (Springer) (ISSN: 0163-8548 ISSN Online 1572-851X)Indizada en: SCOPUS, Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science), SCImago, entre otros.MIAR 2021: ICDS 11.0Grupo A. Clasificación CIRC. 2021