From G. Simmel's «the Picture Frame» to Painting as a «Phenomenological Simulation» in the Teaching of Sociology of Everyday Life

Abstract

The paper deals with the different variants of appealing to artworks, particularly paintings presented in the art museums, while teaching phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology.  The following problem fields of sociological analysis are disclosed: painting as a «phenomenological simulator», painting as «culture text»; painting and frame, painting as a field of Garfinkel’s experiments etc. The main attention is dedicated to grounding of possibility and perspective of work with the painting as a «phenomenological simulator» for development of the key notions of phenomenological sociology and phenomenological reduction method.