In this volume, Professor Rogers examines the usefulness of a phenomenological approach to sociology.

Preface; Introduction; 1. The struggle toward critical unity in sociology; 2. Consciousness and constitution; 3. Experience, meaning, and the self; 4. The life-world; 5. Phenomenological methods; 6. Ethnomethodology: an alternative sociology?; 7. Ethnomethodology: a phenomenological sociology?; 8. The idea of phenomenological sociology; Notes; Bibliography; Indices.