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<p>This article contributes to phenomenological sociology by establishing a dialogue between Hermann Schmitz’s “new phenomenology” and Erving Goffman’s microsociology. The focus is on synthesizing the two authors’ central scholarly themes: in Schmitz’s work, <i>feelings as atmospheres</i>; in Goffman’s, the <i>interaction order</i>. The text demonstrates that neo-phenomenological sociology, drawing on Schmitz and Goffman, is a microsociological approach centered on atmospheres—an object unknown in classical phenomenological sociology (Schütz and his successors). Because atmospheres are the product, shaper, and stabilizer of and a threat to any microsocial situation, the interaction order always proves to be an <i>atmosphere order</i> as well. A phenomenological sociology based on Schmitz and Goffman thus simultaneously corrects the activist bias of the sociological tradition and points to the fundamentally pathic dimension of the social.</p>

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The Atmosphere Order: A Dialogue Between Hermann Schmitz and Erving Goffman

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    2026年5月13日

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  • Robert Gugutzer

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This article contributes to phenomenological sociology by establishing a dialogue between Hermann Schmitz’s “new phenomenology” and Erving Goffman’s microsociology. The focus is on synthesizing the two authors’ central scholarly themes: in Schmitz’s work, feelings as atmospheres; in Goffman’s, the interaction order. The text demonstrates that neo-phenomenological sociology, drawing on Schmitz and Goffman, is a microsociological approach centered on atmospheres—an object unknown in classical phenomenological sociology (Schütz and his successors). Because atmospheres are the product, shaper, and stabilizer of and a threat to any microsocial situation, the interaction order always proves to be an atmosphere order as well. A phenomenological sociology based on Schmitz and Goffman thus simultaneously corrects the activist bias of the sociological tradition and points to the fundamentally pathic dimension of the social.