Phenomenological Sociology: Experience and Insight in Modern Society

by Harvie Ferguson

Book Overview

This innovative and thought-provoking book argues that phenomenology was the most significant, wide-ranging and influential philosophy to emerge in the twentieth century. The social character of phenomenology is explored in its relation to the concern in twentieth century sociology with questions of modern experience. Phenomenology and sociology come together as ′ethnographies of the present′. As such, they break free of the self-imposed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761959874
• ISBN13: 9780761959878
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.1"