Define umwelt and mitwelt and show how they connect to stocks of knowledge.
What will be an ideal response?
The elements in our stock of knowledge do not contain the same weight or value in every situation. Schutz uses the terms umwelt and mitwelt to differentiate various realms of social experience based on the level of intimacy/immediacy. Specifically, the umwelt is the realm of directly experienced social reality. Umwelt experiences (we relations) are a product of face-to-face relationships and are defined by a high degree of intimacy, as actors are in one another’s immediate copresence. By contrast, the mitwelt (world of contemporaries) is the realm of indirectly experienced social reality. In mitwelt relations, people are experienced only as “types,” or within larger social structures, rather than individual actors.
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