Define and differentiate stocks of knowledge, recipes, and typifications.

What will be an ideal response?


Schutz sets out several interrelated concepts that help clarify the Weberian notion of social action and interpretive understanding. These concepts include lifeworld and intersubjectivity, discussed previously, and stocks of knowledge, recipes, and typifications. Stocks of knowledge (Erfahrung) provide actors with rules for interpreting interactions, social relationships, organizations, institutions, and the physical world. Although Schutz sometimes uses the terms “recipe” and “typification” interchangeably, typification is the process of constructing personal “ideal-types” based on the typical function of people or things rather than their unique features.

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