Abstract
Alfred Schutz's influence on American sociologists and sociology in the 1960s and 1970s is traced through the examination of the work of two of his students, Helmut Wagner and Peter Berger, and of Harold Garfinkel with whom he met and corresponded over a number of years. The circumstances of Schutz's own academic situation, particularly the short period of his academic career in the United States and his location at the New School, are examined to consider how and in what ways he was constrained from exerting an even wider influence. The two major areas of influence in American sociology that are examined are the sociology of knowledge and the early development of ethnomethodology.
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Psathas, G. Alfred Schutz's Influence on American Sociologists and Sociology. Human Studies 27, 1–35 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:HUMA.0000012249.47522.56
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