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Social Sensitivity: A Study of Habit and Experience
Contributor(s): Ostrow, James M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0791402169     ISBN-13: 9780791402160
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE: $30.35  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1990
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Sociology - General
- Philosophy
Dewey: 302.12
LCCN: 89-35027
Series: Suny the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.44" W x 9.16" L (0.52 lbs) 137 pages
 
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The author develops a phenomenological theory of the social structure of immediate experience. At the heart of this study is a theory of habitual sensitivity that originates in the writings of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and John Dewey. The author develops this theory as an alternative to Schutz's theory of taken-for-granted knowledge, which has had a pervasive influence on how phenomenology has been understood and applied within sociology. Each chapter expands on Ostrow's claim that the world is inherently social, by virtue of the sensitivity that immerses us within it before it ever becomes an object of reflection.
 
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