Social Sensitivity: A Study of Habit and ExperienceThe 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. |
Contents
Introduction The Sense and Significance of Social Life | 1 |
Sense and signification | 2 |
Prereflective habit | 9 |
Intersubjectivity as a problem of habit | 11 |
Selfawareness prior to selfobjectification | 14 |
The subject as a meeting of two pasts | 16 |
Social sensitivity | 19 |
From TakenForGrantedness to Sensitivity Toward a Social Theory of Immediate Experience | 21 |
The Experience of Self Sensitivity and Reflexive Awareness | 51 |
Selfawareness and spontaneous involvement | 55 |
Reflexive sensitivity | 59 |
The preobjective experience of self | 61 |
The Disposition of Social Position Habitus and Sensitivity | 67 |
The theory of habitus | 69 |
The case of the classroom | 73 |
The embodiment of social position | 79 |
Habit and takenforgranted knowledge | 22 |
Embodied sensitivity | 26 |
Sociality as a foundation of consciousness | 32 |
The Intersubjective Contact The Preobjective Level of Social Life | 35 |
Intersubjectivity and takenforgranted knowledge | 36 |
Inter subjective sensitivity | 40 |
Expression as a medium of consciousness | 45 |
Habit and possibility | 81 |
Conclusion Sociology and Human Experience | 85 |
NOTES | 93 |
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