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(1984) Alfred Schutz, Dordrecht, Springer.

The well-informed citizen

Alfred Schutz and applied theory

Jonathan Imber

pp. 11-20

There are at least three ways to read Alfred Schutz's The Well-informed Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge.' One may view it as a contribution to what Schutz calls a "theoretical science dealing with the social distribution of knowledge' (1964, Schutz, p. 121). Seen thus, the essay poses a challenge to the "claim that the sociology of knowledge was the exclusive field of a Marxian interpretation of all thinking as "product" of material social conditions' (Wagner, 1983, p. 89).

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-6228-6_2

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Imber, J. (1984)., The well-informed citizen: Alfred Schutz and applied theory, in K. Wolff (ed.), Alfred Schutz, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 11-20.

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