Collected Papers II

I / Pure Theory.- The Social World and the Theory of Social Action.- The Dimensions of The Social World.- I. Introduction.- II. Social Reality within Reach of Direct Experience.- 1. The face-to-face situation and the "pure" we-relation.- 2. Social relations in the face-to-face situation.- 3. Direct observations.- III. The World of Contemporaries as a Structure of Typifications.- 1. The transition from direct to indirect experience of social reality.- 2. The contemporary as an ideal type and the they-relation.- 3. The strata of anonymity in the world of contemporaries.- 4. Social relations between contemporaries.- IV. The World of Predecessors and the Problem of History.- V. Glossary.- The Problem of Rationality in the Social World.- II / Applied Theory.- The Stranger: An Essay in Social Psychology.- The Homecomer.- The Well-Informed Citizen: An Essay on the Social Distribution of Knowledge.- Don Quixote and the Problem of Reality.- Making Music Together: A Study in Social Relationship.- Mozart and the Philosophers.- Santayana on Society and Government.- Equality and the Meaning Structure of the Social World.- I. Introduction.- II. The Social World as Taken for Granted and Its Structurization.- III. The Concept of Equality and the Structure of Relevance.- IV. The Various Interpretations of the World Taken for Granted.- 1. The self-interpretation of the world taken for granted by the in-group.- 2. The out-group's interpretation of the world taken for granted by the in-group.- 3. Interpretation of the order of relevances by the social scientist.- 4. Interpretation of the order of relevance from a philosophical, mythical, or theological basic position.- V. Subjective and Objective Interpretation.- A. Subjective and objective meaning of the concept "social group".- 1. Subjective meaning of group membership.- 2. Objective meaning of group membership.- B. Subjective and objective meaning of equality.- 1. Subjective and objective constitution of homogeneous domains of relevance.- 2. Discrimination and minority rights, subjectively and objectively interpreted.- 3. The order of domains of relevances, subjectively and objectively interpreted.- 4. Equality aimed-at and equality to-be-granted.- C. Subjective and objective meaning of equal opportunity.- Some Equivocations in the Notion of Responsibility.- Tiresias, or Our Knowledge of Future Events.