Schutz

Background information on Schutz

• Schutz was a philosopher, psychologist, sociologist and a musicologist
• Born In Viennna in 1899  - he studied law and the social sciences

The common sense world

• The common sense world – this world existed, we believe, before our birth, has its history and is given to us in an organized fashion –
• The common sense world is primarily the scene of our actions and the locus of resistance to action the main port here is that: we act not only within but upon the world 
• Alfred argued that within the common sense world our initial purpose is to not interpret our understanding of the world but to look at the effecting of changes within it – he argued that we seek to dominated before we endeavour to comprehend
• Alfred argued that the common sense world is the arena of social action – within it men come into relationship with each other and to come to terms with each other as well as themselves but all of this is taken for granted
• He argued that this means that these structures of daily life are not themseleves recongized or appreciated formally by common sense – rather the common sense sees the world, acts in the world and interprets the world through these implicit typifcations
• Common sense reality forms the matrix for all social action

Biographical situation

• Each individuals locates himself in daily life in a particular manner
• To be born into the world means to be born of parents who are unique to us, to be raised by adults who constitute the guiding elements of our segment of experience
• Schutz says human beings are born of mothers and not concocted in resorts every individuals life is realized in a unique way – moreover each person continues throughout his life to interpret what he encounters in the world in the perspective of his special interests, motives, desires, aspirations, religious and ideological commitments – as a result of this, common sense reality is given to us in historical and cultural form of universal validity,