biography
pronunciation:
[shuts]
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| (1899–1959)
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| biography:
| Social philosopher, born in Vienna, Austria. He emigrated to the USA, and continued his banking career in New York City from 1939, becoming professor in the New School of Social Research there in 1952. He reacted against the positivism and behaviourism of the Vienna Circle, and developed a phenomenological, descriptive sociology which assumes that the sociologists are themselves a factor in whatever they investigate. His main work is Die sinnhafte Aufbau der sozialen Welt (1932, The Phenomenology of the Social World). |
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