Alfred Schutz on Social Order

DANIELA GRISELDA LÓPEZ

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires

Congreso; II. Conference of The International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Social Science; 2014

Fundación Williams

The paper aims to analyze the potentiality of Schutzian phenomenology to account for the problem of social order. Firstly, we expose the existence of an interpretive scheme of Parsonian roots in Contemporary Social Theory that introduces the dualistic dilemma-subjective action versus social order in the analysis of Schutz´s perspective. According to this interpretive scheme, Schutz fails to master the problem of social order. Secondly, and in clear opposition to those interpretations, we show three main contributions which have put forward the argument that it is possible to find in Schutz´s work a theory of social order: Harold Garfinkel´s early writings, the recent Austrian School of Economics´ reception of Schutz and the present-day interpretation in German sociology. Following these efforts our work recuperates Schutzian theory of the pragmatic order of the life-world highlighting, on the one hand, the pragmatic articulation of the different orders of reality and, on the other, the interplay between systems of attitudes and systems of motives in the pragmatic articulation of the central and peripheral levels of the person in the social world. La ponencia recibió el premio "Ilse Schutz Memorial Prize" Otorgado por el Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 25 de Abril de 2014. Una versión modificada de esta ponencia fue publicada en la Revista Schutzian Research VI.