Explain how Schutz’s intersubjectivity connects to Emile Durkheim.
What will be an ideal response?
Schutz’s emphasis on shared consciousness and meaning recalls Émile Durkheim’s conceptualization of “collective conscience.” Durkheim used this term to refer to the “totality of beliefs and sentiments common to average citizens of the same society” that “forms a determinate system which has its own life” (1893/1984:38–39).2 However, in contrast to Durkheim, Schutz does not conceptualize the preorganized and pregiven elements of the lifeworld as acting on the individual with the external power of constraint. Rather, in accordance with the basic premises of symbolic interactionism (see Chapter 5), Schutz views one’s “natural attitude” as based on the acceptance, interpretation, redefinition, and modification of cultural elements by the individual (Wagner 1973:64).
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