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Phenomenological perspectives in Sociology reject many of the assumption of positivism, Comment.

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  • Sociology as a Science

Phenomenology entered sociology as a distinct philosophical tradition, rooted in Edmund Husserl's philosophy and developed sociologically by Alfred Schutz, whose concept of the life-world (Lebenswelt) and its intersubjective construction became the school's central sociological contribution.

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  • Reality Independent of Consciousness vs. Reality Constituted Through Consciousness
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