Table of Contents

I / On the Methodology of the Social Sciences.- Common-Sense and Scientific Interpretation of Human Action.- Concept and Theory Formation in the Social Sciences.- Choosing Among Projects of Action.- II / Phenomenology and the Social Sciences.- Some Leading Concepts of Phenomenology.- Phenomenology and the Social Sciences.- Husserl’s Importance for the Social Sciences.- Scheler’s Theory of Intersubjectivity and the General Thesis of the Alter Ego.- Sartre’s Theory of the Alter Ego.- III / Symbol, Reality and Society.- On Multiple Realities.- Language, Language Disturbances, and the Texture of Consciousness.- Symbol, Reality and Society.