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The most venerated progenitor, central, and unifying figure in the emergence of social phenomenology is Alfred Schütz (1899–1959). Here a brief academic biography is followed by an outline of key conceptual distinctions in his investigations of the social world. Discussion is limited to the early foundation for sociology based on the Bergsonian investigations of experiential time; the nature of intersubjectivity; the stratifications of the social world; spatial and temporal stratifications; knowledge of the social world; and the methodology of the social sciences.1
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Backhaus, G. (2002). Alfred Schütz, Progenitor of Social Phenomenology. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) Phenomenology World-Wide. Analecta Husserliana, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0473-2_70
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