Thomas Eberle
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Eberle
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Item type:Publication, The Methodological Concept of Adequacy from a Historical PerspectiveThe aim of this essay is to reconstruct the history of the methodological concept of adequacy, its origin, its development and shifts in conception. The concept of “adequate causation” was introduced by physiologist Johannes von Kries based on his theory of probability. He proclaimed that the contrary of an “accidental” causation is not a “necessary” causation but an “adequate” causation, which means that a result is caused with a certain, significant (objective) probability. This concept was eagerly discussed by philosophers of law and had a profound influence on Max Weber who applied it to historical and sociological analysis. Weber made “causal adequacy” a methodological postulate of sociology and coupled it with “meaning adequacy”. Alfred Schutz, who intended to provide Weber’s sociology with a philosophical foundation, rejected causal adequacy as inadequate for the social sciences and merged the two postulates into one. His definitions of the postulate of adequacy are, however, somewhat inconsistent and seem to reduce it sometimes to mere understandability, dropping the requirement of coherence of experience or, in modern terms, empirical validation. This inconsistency and its implications are discussed in some depth. Based on Schutz, Harold Garfinkel developed ethnomethodology and interpreted the postulate of adequacy in this new context. We discuss the weak and the strong version of the “unique adequacy criterion” and some of their implications. The conclusion recapitulates the crucial insights of this journey.Type:journal articleJournal:Human StudiesVolume:48Issue:4Scopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Análisis fenomenológico del mundo de la vida e investigación interpretativa: La importancia del postulado de adecuación en la obra de Alfred SchutzThe aim of the present paper is to specify and discuss the relation between the phenomenological lifeworld analysis developed by Alfred Schutz and the methodology of the social sciences. First, the Schutzian project of providing a phenomenological foundation for the social sciences is outlined. Second, I present Schutz’s postulates concerning social-scientific constructions. Then, I analyze the way in which Max Weber and Schutz conceive of the so-called postulate of adequacy. Finally, some contemporary attempts to apply the lifeworld analysis to empirical social research are presented.Type:journal articleJournal:Revista DiferenciasVolume:7 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, Klassiker der Organisationsforschung (28): Erving Goffman. Was geht hier eigentlich vor?Type:journal articleJournal:Organisationsentwicklung : Zeitschrift für Unternehmensentwicklung und Change ManagementVolume:37Issue:2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Methodological Reflexivity(Seismo Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2016-12); - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Regaining Sense-Connexions after Cerebral HemorrhageType:journal articleJournal:Schutzian ResearchVolume:5Issue:2013 / 2013 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Management von KlösternType:journal articleJournal:Zeitschrift Führung + Organisation (ZFO)Volume:83Issue:3 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Phenomenological Sociology Reconsidered: On "The New Orleans Sniper"Type:journal articleJournal:Human StudiesVolume:36Issue:1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, OE lehren an der Universität : Ein erfahrungszentrierter Ansatz mit OrganisationssimulationType:journal articleJournal:OrganisationEntwicklung. Zeitschrift für Unternehmensentwicklung und Change ManagementVolume:2013Issue:2 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Phenomenological Life-World Analysis and Ethnomethodology's ProgramThis paper discusses ethnomethodology's program in relation to the phenomenological life-world analysis of Alfred Schutz. A recent publication of Garfinkel's early writings sheds new light on how he made use of phenomenological reflections in order to create a new sociological approach. Garfinkel used Schutz's life-world analysis as a source of inspiration, called for ‘misreading' in the sense of an alternate reading and developed a new, empirical approach to the analysis of social order which he called ‘ethnomethodology'. Ethnomethodologists usually acknowledge the historical importance of Schutz but emphasize that Garfinkel succeeded to overcome the limitations of phenomenological analyses and moved beyond. This view has spread above all in the Anglosaxon countries. In German sociology, Schutz's life-world analysis still has a much stronger standing than ethnomethodology and is interpreted as a systematic whole. Following Luckmann, it is discussed as a protosociological foundation of the methodology of social sciences or, following Srubar, as a philosophical anthropology with two poles: a subjective and a social, pragmatic pole. Both versions claim to analyze the meaningful constitution of the social world, to serve as a foundation of sociological methodology and to provide guidelines for an ‘adequate' sociology. While Garfinkel used phenomenological concepts for sociological analysis, Luckmann clearly distinguishes the two: you either do phenomenology (protosociology) or you do sociology (a theoretically guided, empirical sociology of knowledge). This paper describes the present-day debate in German sociology and compares ethnomethodology's program with these interpretations of Schutz's life-world analysis.Type:journal articleJournal:Human StudiesVolume:35Issue:2Scopus© Citations 49