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This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches. Includes Schutz´s theory of relevances, his critique of T.S. Eliot´s theory of culture, and an ethnographic description of the diary of his first visit to the U.S.

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This book shows how phenomenology of the social sciences differs from positivistic approaches, and presents Schutz´s theory of relevances--a key feature of his own phenomenology of the social world. It begins with Schutz´s appraisal of how Husserl influenced him, and continues with exchanges between Schutz and Eric Voegelin, Felix Kaufmann, Aron Gurwitsch, and Talcott Parsons. This book presents, for the first time, Schutz´s incisive criticisms of T.S. Eliot´s theory of culture.

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Editorial Introduction; Husserl and His Influence on Me; Choice and the Social Sciences; The Theory of Social Action: Correspondence between Alfred Schutz and Talcott Parsons; Reflections on the Problem of Relevance; Outlines on "Relevance and Action"; T. S. Eliot´s Theory of Culture; Letters of Schutz to Felix Kaufmann; Letters of Schutz to Gurwitsch; Letters of Schutz to Voegelin.

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