The Life World of Alfred Schutz

The world of everyday life is cognize as the life-world in Schutzs sociology. People are oriented to the life-world in the born(p) attitude, in which the world is taken for granted until a problematic pip emerges. Schutz maintained that the life-world is defined by six characteristics. First, it is characterized by wide-awakeness in which the proletarian gives full attention to life and its requirements. Second, the world is taken for granted actors freeze any doubt of the existence of the life-world. Third, hoi polloi work in the life-world they gear wheel into the life-world.Fourth, people experience the working ego as the total self in the life-world. Fifth, the social life of the life-world is characterized by intersubjectivity. Sixth, the actors feed in of time intersects with the flow of time of society. The life world is an intersubjective world, one that existed before our birth it was created by our predecessors and it was presumptuousness to us to experience and interpret. Ones life-world, in other words, predates an individuals birth and is given to them to struggle with and attempt to transform.The life-world is therefore constraining, and people are always seek to shape or dominate it Cultural world was created by people in the past as in the present because it originates in and has been instituted by human actions all cultural objects such as tools, symbols, languages, art, and social institutions request back to the origin and meaning of human action In his abbreviation of the life world Schutz was mainly concerned with the shared social investment trust of acquaintance that leads to more or less habitual action Schutz views acquaintance as the close to variable element in our origination of knowledge because in a problematic situation we are able to cause up with innovative ways of handling the situation Two aspects of stock of knowledge that is less likely to become problematic 1. Knowledge of skills- most basic knowledge th at rarely becomes problematic 2. Useful knowledge- definite upshot to a situation that was once problematic