Resilience And Responsiveness Alfreds Schutzs Finite Provinces Of Meaning Michael Barber by Michael Barber 9783031537813, 3031537815 instant download after payment.

This book project grows out of my 2017 publication Religion and Humor as Emancipating Provinces of Meaning (Springer) in which I explained the pragmatic nature of Alfred Schutz’s understanding of everyday life and then considered in depth the provinces of meaning of religious experience and humor. In this book, I return to this earlier project but with entirely new and specific foci on religious/spiritual ritual experience and on African-American folkloric humor. In addition, I develop an account of two provinces of meaning that Schutz only gestured toward, play and music. Schutz never did fully examine music as finite province of meaning, but he, instead, singled out the social relationships we find in the musical province, described as “mutual tuning-in,” which he argued could clarify social relationships beyond the boundaries of the finite province of meaning. Instead of separating social relations from the encompassing musical province of meaning, this book investigates, beginning with music, how the five non-social features of the cognitive style of any province of meaning can affect what goes on within the social relation ships carried on within any finite province of meaning. It extends this method of considering sociality in the light of the other features of the cognitive style of provinces of meaning to play, religious/spiritual ritual, and African-American folkloric humor. I have also traced throughout this discussion of finite provinces of meaning two fundamental themes of Schutz’s work, resilience, that is the creative and multiple ways in which we come to terms with, or “give meaning to,” imposed relevances, and responsiveness, the distinctive model of social relationship that characterizes the finite provinces of meaning—both of which reveal Schutz’s commitment to what is widely known as a social phenomenology.