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Subject: The importance of philosophy to sociology
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 93 17:45:17 CST
From: Kaj E. Williams <kajw@cwis.unomaha.edu>

" Whoever, then, wishes to analyze the basic concepts of the
social sciences must be willing to embark on a laborious
philosophical journey, for the meaning-structure of the
social world can only be deduced from the most primitive 
and general characteristics of consciousness..."
  
				--Alfred Schutz
                               _The Phenomenology of 
                                the Social World_ ,p12.