EMCA Seminar
Spring-Summer of 2015
Shiro Kashimura
Professor, School of Law
Kobe University
Theme: Life-Worlds, Immigration and Cultural Reflection
The Spring-Summer term of 2015 EMCA Seminar considers such complex interactional phenomena as deviant career, ethnicity, immigration and cultural confrontation. On the way, we will examine them as the phenomena of the Life-World. The seminar will start with considering the concept of "definition of situation" then "career of individual" through the subjective sociology of William I. Thomas. Then we examine the phenomena of immigration, national culture, and universalistic individualism of modern society through the works by Morawska, Znaniecki, and Parsons. We shall examine the complexity of Life-World phenomena of Drama through the early work of Schutz, and the concepts of bodily reflection as Marginal Consciousness through the work of Gurwitsch. After examining the two stages of Schutz's life to place his theory in German and American intellectual contexts, we try to learn the relationship of the life-world knowledge and the society at large.
Materials for the Seminar: (教材の順番を変更しました。2015.6.2)
[1] 相互反映性の原則の学説史的起源 -> LINK
[2] Chapter 1 "The Wishes" and Chapter 2 "The Regulation of the Wishes" of The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavioral Analysis (1923) by William I. Thomas, Little Brown & Company: 1 - 69. (The book is available online.)
[3] Chapter 1 of Ewa Morawska For Bread with Butter:The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) 1986.
[4] Chapter 1 of Florian Znaniecki Modern Nationalities 1973.
[5] Talcott Parsons "Individuality and Institutionalized Individualism." Chapter 10 of American Society: A Theory of the Societal Community (edited by Giuseppe Sciortino), Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
[6] Alfred Schutz "Meaning Structure of Drama and Opera" in Life Forms and Meaning Structure. Translated by Helmut R. Wagner. Rutledge, 1982: 180-207.
[7] Michael D. Barber, "Social Science and Philosophy (1919-38): Weber and Bergson" Chapter 2 of The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz. SUNY Press. 2004: 25-39
[8] Michael D. Barber "The Years 1952 to 1956: Philosophical Midwifery; Correspondence and Research" of The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz. SUNY Press. 2004: 167-80.
[9] Alfred Schutz & Thomas Luckmann "Knowledge and Society" in The Structures of the Life-World. Northwestern University Press, 1973: 243-331.
[10] Aron Gurwitsch "Marginal Consciousness" in The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Volume III: The Field of Consciousness, Springer.: 451-537.
[11] Aron Gurwitsch "Outline of a Theory of 'Essentially Occasioned Expressions'" in The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Volume III: The Field of Consciousness, Springer: 451-537.
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Additional Information:
The early publications and biographical events in Garfinkel's scholarly life are listed in my site: Formative Steps of Ethnomethodology.
Time & Place:
The class will meet in Room 302 of Frontier Building at 13:30-16:30 (the ending time depending on the discussion) on every Tuesday starting on April 14, 2015.
Whereas this is a credited course for the graduate students of legal sociology of Kobe University, anyone who is interested is welcome to attend (without credits).
Spring-Summer of 2015
Shiro Kashimura
Professor, School of Law
Kobe University
Theme: Life-Worlds, Immigration and Cultural Reflection
The Spring-Summer term of 2015 EMCA Seminar considers such complex interactional phenomena as deviant career, ethnicity, immigration and cultural confrontation. On the way, we will examine them as the phenomena of the Life-World. The seminar will start with considering the concept of "definition of situation" then "career of individual" through the subjective sociology of William I. Thomas. Then we examine the phenomena of immigration, national culture, and universalistic individualism of modern society through the works by Morawska, Znaniecki, and Parsons. We shall examine the complexity of Life-World phenomena of Drama through the early work of Schutz, and the concepts of bodily reflection as Marginal Consciousness through the work of Gurwitsch. After examining the two stages of Schutz's life to place his theory in German and American intellectual contexts, we try to learn the relationship of the life-world knowledge and the society at large.
Materials for the Seminar: (教材の順番を変更しました。2015.6.2)
[1] 相互反映性の原則の学説史的起源 -> LINK
[2] Chapter 1 "The Wishes" and Chapter 2 "The Regulation of the Wishes" of The Unadjusted Girl: With Cases and Standpoint for Behavioral Analysis (1923) by William I. Thomas, Little Brown & Company: 1 - 69. (The book is available online.)
[3] Chapter 1 of Ewa Morawska For Bread with Butter:The Life-Worlds of East Central Europeans in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1890-1940 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) 1986.
[4] Chapter 1 of Florian Znaniecki Modern Nationalities 1973.
[5] Talcott Parsons "Individuality and Institutionalized Individualism." Chapter 10 of American Society: A Theory of the Societal Community (edited by Giuseppe Sciortino), Paradigm Publishers, 2007.
[6] Alfred Schutz "Meaning Structure of Drama and Opera" in Life Forms and Meaning Structure. Translated by Helmut R. Wagner. Rutledge, 1982: 180-207.
[7] Michael D. Barber, "Social Science and Philosophy (1919-38): Weber and Bergson" Chapter 2 of The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz. SUNY Press. 2004: 25-39
[8] Michael D. Barber "The Years 1952 to 1956: Philosophical Midwifery; Correspondence and Research" of The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz. SUNY Press. 2004: 167-80.
[9] Alfred Schutz & Thomas Luckmann "Knowledge and Society" in The Structures of the Life-World. Northwestern University Press, 1973: 243-331.
[10] Aron Gurwitsch "Marginal Consciousness" in The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Volume III: The Field of Consciousness, Springer.: 451-537.
[11] Aron Gurwitsch "Outline of a Theory of 'Essentially Occasioned Expressions'" in The Collected Works of Aron Gurwitsch (1901-1973). Volume III: The Field of Consciousness, Springer: 451-537.
-> Course Materials (Password Required)
Additional Information:
The early publications and biographical events in Garfinkel's scholarly life are listed in my site: Formative Steps of Ethnomethodology.
Time & Place:
The class will meet in Room 302 of Frontier Building at 13:30-16:30 (the ending time depending on the discussion) on every Tuesday starting on April 14, 2015.
Whereas this is a credited course for the graduate students of legal sociology of Kobe University, anyone who is interested is welcome to attend (without credits).
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