Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The lifeworld is the taken-for-granted backdrop within which all situations are measured and given meaning.
2. Stocks of knowledge, recipes, and typifications are Schutz’s attempts to clarify Durkheimian notions of social action.
3. Each human has his/her own biographically articulated stock of knowledge.
4. Social life is only possible via shared interpretative schemes and language.


1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE

Sociology

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