The Phenomenology of Social Institutions in the Schutzian Tradition

ALEXIS EMANUEL GROS; CARLOS BELVEDERE

Schutzian Research: A Yearbook of Worldly Phenomenology and Qualitative Social Science

Zeta Books

Lugar: Bucarest; Año: 2019 vol. 11

2067-0621

There is a broad consensus that the study of social institutions is one of the fundamental concerns of the social sciences. The idea that phenomenol-ogy has ignored this topic is also widely accepted. As against this view, the present paper aims at demonstrating that especially Schutzian phenomenol-ogy?that is, the social-phenomenological tradition started by Alfred Schutz and continued by Thomas Luckmann and Peter Berger, among others?pro-vides rich insights on the nature and workings of social institutions that could contribute to enriching the current social-scientific debate on the issue. In order to show this, the authors attempt to unearth and systematically recon-struct Schutz?s and Berger and Luckmann?s insights on social institutions and to confront them with current approaches.