It has recently become very popular in such a discipline as sociology, philosophy and linguistics that the matter of everyday experience, everyday knowledge and everyday life comes into reconsideration in all its aspects. In the sphere of sociology the problem of everyday life is discussed mainly in what is called “new” sociology, such as ethnomethodology, symbolic interactionism and phenomenological sociology.
In this paper the matter will be discussed in three points as follows.
1. What is the impulse that makes sociologists turn their interests to the problem of everyday life? Why is the everyday experience-oriented sociology called “new” ? How and in any problem-context are the matter of everyday experience and system theory related with each other?
2. We will examine as a typical example of Parsons-Schutz dispute about the theory of social action the problem of “misplacedness” of the concrete reality of life world from the abstract reality of science, which is clarified in the section 1.
3. One can find that the same problem of the section 2 is also discussed in Niklas Luhmann's system theory from a different point of view, that is, one of the self-hypostatization of science. Luhmann insists that the self-hypostatization of science can only be solved by means of self-thematization of social system. We must critically examine the logic of Luhmann's thesis.